Health Care Battle a Prelude to the 2010 Midterm Elections

Obama's broken promises list is longer than Santa's Christmas List! His word means nothing.

The bill ignores logical actions which could reduce the cost of health care and benefit most Americans: tort reform, opening competition among insurers across state lines, simplifying paperwork for filing claims, clamping down on the fraud and government inefficiencies which are draining billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare and eliminating all but emergency care for illegal aliens. Instead it is directed toward rewarding special interest groups and buying votes from those who prefer to depend upon government welfare than to earn their own way in life.

The bill already is designed to run up billions of extra dollars in federal deficits. But wait and see the number of earmarks (better described as Bribes) that will be added if Reid thinks he needs to buy more yes votes. The $100 billion grant to Sen. Landrieu shows how anxious liberals are to use our own money against us.

I expect Obama to honor his promise not to sign off on a deficit creating version just as credibly as he has with his promises of moderation, reduced deficit spending, transparency, using the stimulus plan to halt increases in unemployment rates and concern for public interests. Adding one more lie to that list will be easy.

You obviously must have been hiding under a rock when the CBO report came out.

john black- Do you have any concept of how the CBO calculates cost? Garbage in garbage out. You will pay tax (if you work) on this bill for four years before it will even be implemented. The projected 10 year cost is $2.4 trillion. Of course no federal project has ever come in under budget so there is little reason to think this one will.
You are obviously a liberal so please answer me one question if you dare.
How is it that a liberal Democrat will raise hell over the waterboarding of a terrorist who was responsible for thousands of deaths and then willingly support the skewering of an unborn child's brain? If it doesn't bother you that at least 36% of these kids are black, I guess I shouldn't lose any sleep over it either.

To S rogers Since you are an arch conservative you answer me one. Ahy is it that you people always down ACORN but praise Black Water or xe or whatever name they are using this week. They killed seven live fully formed civilians and then tried to offer bribes to cover it up. Where is your outraged on that?

I wonder if the CBO accounts for everything like , people who don't want to go to work for the day go to the free doctor , don't want go to school for the day go to the free doctor , need drugs go to the free doctor , if any of them turn you down just keep going to the NEXT free doctor , As you can see this will get out of hand pretty quick .

You can bet we will see a bunch of new faces after 2010

Here is the text of a fax that I sent to my senator.

America cannot afford, at any level, the current healthcare bills that are in the congress. Any reform effort needs to adhere to the following three key points.
1. NO diversion or reduction in allocations, in any fashion, of OUR Medicare money,
2. NO new healthcare taxes, fees, duties, or assessments, and finally,
3. NO increase, in any fashion, to the national debt!

Cutting or diverting Medicare resources will destroy the program, while increasing the national deficit will head the US to a financial ruin. The current bills in congress are NOT reform, but rather redistributions.

Here in a snapshot is reform. Revamp tort law, limit lawyer fees to 10% and lawyers pay for irresponsible lawsuits, no healthcare constraints on pre-existing conditions, eliminate all deductibles and catastrophic caps, standardized premiums for individuals, groups, and corporations, establish a standardized co-pay, allow insurance companies to form groups and competition across state lines and function as a Public Trust, permit Medicare to negotiate the cost of drugs, medical supplies, and medical devices, fund Medicare and Medicaid to cover minors and the uninsured, establish paycheck deductions for Medicare like SS, compel the AMA to increase the number of MDs, PAs, and others by a factor of 1000%, and ALL non-military members and levels of Government, including congress, will be a member of the program.

In summary, as my Senator, I expect you to vote against the current bill, which is a stop-gap, politically motivated document, and instead, to push for true reform as outlined above.

Regards,

Are you from Montana?

Obamas mother and white grandparents were devout, proud and admitted communists. They raised him, and yet people seem shocked when he is called out for what he is and believes in. Too many american citizens with their head in the sand.

The Health Care Overhaul Bill: Yea or Nay? Two issues: (1) large national debt, (2) increased tax burden. One's support of the Health Care Bill depends largely, not on these issues, but rather on how important these issues are considered to be.

With debt, there is a flow of the GDP from the U.S. to creditor nations. Our supply of marketable items is shifted, and our money is inflated. We fall behind the rest of the world in terms of modern technology, basic commodities, and medical care. Prosperity is lost.

No matter how taxes are imposed, the problem is that taxes filter down through our economic system, and we all pay. The costs hit us at the grocery market, the hardware store, the gas station, etc. Prices could double.