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March 17, 2010

Video: S.D. Governor: Federal Government Should Not Require Citizens to Buy Health Insurance

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: Rep. Paul Ryan: 'Proposed healthcare debt would literally crash the U.S. economy.'

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Dr. Scott Gottlieb: The 'Middle-Class Squeeze' under current healthcare proposal.

The president has spent the closing days of the health-care debate making his case to the segments of Americans who will benefit under ObamaCare. But lots of other people will be squeezed under the scheme--and not the rich folks that President Obama singles out in his stump speeches, but families who are decidedly middle class. Health reform will leave many of them newly priced out of a transformed market for health insurance.

The hardest hit won't be those earning more than $250,000 a year--the group that he says needs to "pay their fair share." Rather, it's families whose combined annual income is around $100,000 who could be crushed under this plan.

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Health Care 101: What happens if the bill passes?

It took lawmakers a year to shape the president's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies.

Some health insurance consumer protections would go into place immediately, significant but limited in scope. The big expansion in coverage comes in four years. About 25 million people would sign up, with most getting tax credits to help pay premiums. Ripple effects continue well after Obama has to leave office in 2017, if he's re-elected. "This is going to play out over a generation," said Andrew Hyman, who oversees health insurance research for the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. "It will address how people get coverage, how health care is delivered, and how health care is paid for."

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Tony Blankley: Constitutional Law 101 [Is the Speaker making an end run around our founding document?]

An AP poll last week shows that four in five Americans don't want the Democrats to pass a health care bill without bipartisan support, while almost all polls are showing support for the current bill to be at only 25 percent to 35 percent. And all polls show high negative intensity.

The resistance of our governing system to passing so unpopular a bill is so powerful that it has driven Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Chairwoman of the Rules Committee Louise Slaughter -- at least for the moment -- to actually publicly consider violating the constitutional process for enacting laws.

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: AG Eric Holder: Bin Laden Has Same Rights as Charles Manson

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: Bachmann: Dem Strategy Is ‘Unconstitutional’

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: Flashback Recap: ‘Costly and Lengthy’ Health Care ‘Transition’ to Single Payer

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: MSNBC’s Shuster: ‘Far Right’ Protesters Are ‘Going Nuts’ on Capitol Hill

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Video: O’Reilly Warns - ‘All Hell Will Break Loose If You Backdoor This’

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 17, 2010

Reading tea party leaves

Members have been portrayed as anti-intellectual and anti-elitist, but their goal is a system that reflects the Constitution and the precepts of limited government.

If you read the Op-Ed pages these days, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the GOP and the conservative movement have been taken over by know-nothing mobs, anti-intellectual demagogues and pitchfork-wielding bigots. There's no omnibus label for this argument, but it's a giveaway that a person subscribes to it if he or she describes the "tea party" movement as "tea baggers," an awfully telling bit of condescension from the camp that affects the pose of being more high-minded.

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 17, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Video: Democrat Whip James Clyburn speaks on Fox News about the healthcare bill.

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Video: White House tells Ohio crowd that their premiums will decrease "by 3,000%" under his healthcare plan.

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Backroom deals on Healthcare.

Now comes word via Politico that drug industry lobbyists spent a good part of the weekend with Democratic congressional staffers writing the bill: "The weekend included high drama for the drug industry as lobbyists huddled with Democratic staffers to work out a fee structure and donut-hole fix."Things must have gone swimmingly between the drug lobbyists and their Democratic congressional staff buddies because Politico added that "there was 'real heartburn with the bill over the weekend and over the last week,' an industry source said. But insiders expressed confidence that their issues were on the road to resolution." Yessiree, spending Saturday and Sunday rewriting legislation cures that heartburn every time.

posted by : Left Coast Conservative on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Video: CNBC’s Cramer: Health Bill Would Boost Tax Rates to 50-60%

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Slaughter House Rules How Democrats may 'deem' Health Care into law, without voting.

Audio: Mark Levine calls for the Expulsion of Rep. Louise Slaughter

Louise Slaughter:

Washington D.C. Office
2469 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-3615
Fax: (202) 225-7822

We're not sure American schools teach civics any more, but once upon a time they taught that under the U.S. Constitution a bill had to pass both the House and Senate to become law. Until this week, that is, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving to merely "deem" that the House has passed the Senate health-care bill and then send it to President Obama to sign anyway.

Under the "reconciliation" process that began yesterday afternoon, the House is supposed to approve the Senate's Christmas Eve bill and then use "sidecar" amendments to fix the things it doesn't like. Those amendments would then go to the Senate under rules that would let Democrats pass them while avoiding the ordinary 60-vote threshold for passing major legislation. This alone is an abuse of traditional Senate process...

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

President Evokes Fear, Calls for Courage

By Debra Saunders

As a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt.

Monday, President Obama went to Strongsville, Ohio, to warn that unless his ObamaCare passes, middle Americans should be very afraid of the day when they (Fear No. 1) lose their job or income, then (Fear No. 2) fall seriously ill and then (Fear No. 3) receive the health care they need, but lose valued assets.

Obama's intended prop was Natoma Canfield, a 50-year-old cleaning woman and cancer survivor who dropped her private health care policy after Anthem Blue Cross raised her premiums some 40 percent to $708 per month. In December, Canfield wrote to Obama telling him that she was going to drop her insurance rather than lose the home her parents built in 1958. Alas, Canfield could not attend, as she since was diagnosed with leukemia and was in the hospital Monday...

 

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Nearly One-Third of Doctors Could Leave Medicine if Health-Care Reform Bill Passes

Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform legislation into law, according to a survey published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The survey, which was conducted by the Medicus Firm, a leading physician search and consulting firm based in Atlanta and Dallas, found a majority of physicians said health-care reform would cause the quality of American medical care to "deteriorate" and it could be the "final straw" that sends a sizeable number of doctors out of medicine...

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Video: Paul Ryan: This entire process has been a disgrace

posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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March 16, 2010

Video: Dem caucus chairman: The public doesn’t much care what procedure we use to pass this thing

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posted by : Nancy Kennon on March 16, 2010
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