In a first step that will likely lead to a Supreme Court ruling, Virginia has passed a law that says Virginians cannot be forced to buy health insurance:
Not satisfied with the seemingly stalled health care reform efforts in Washington, state lawmakers in Richmond, Virginia want to make sure residents of the Old Dominion State aren’t [...]
Opposition to the Democrats’ Health Care reform, often referred to as Obamacare, continues to solidify. Over 50% of Americans believe health care costs will rise under Obamacare, rather than seeing decreased costs. While only 20% of voters strongly support the health care reform, nearly half of the voters polled strongly oppose it.
A new Rasmussen Reports [...]
The President called the Mayo Clinic a national model for efficient health care during his initial push to pass his ill-conceived Obamacare health reform. While it seemed that early on the Mayo clinic was a full supporter of the Democrats health care reform ideas, as actual details came forth, they distanced themselves from the President’s [...]
By now, most people are familiar with the various ‘favors’ that Harry Reid built into his managers amendment ‘compromise agreement’. Nebraska, Vermont, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Florida and other states all got sweetheart deals in exchange for votes.
Now it would seem that a Senator, probably with ties to large construction companies or construction worker’s unions, had Reid [...]
Yet another former supporter of Obamacare is now criticizing it. York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had been referred to by the White House as a pro-healthcare reform advocate. Now, Bloomberg is raising concerns about the bill and the process. Bloomberg, like many Mayors and Governors around the country, has major concerns about what Harry Reid’s [...]
This is a topic we will likely be reading about for some time to come. The question is whether or not the federal government has the right to force all Americans to buy health insurance and penalize them if they choose not to do so. As is often the case, the argument in favor of [...]
Apparently the backlash over the Senate payoffs hasn’t persuaded Nancy Pelosi from taking the same route to buy passage of the Senate bill when it comes to the House. In fact, it seems that Reid’s success in buying 60 Senate votes has emboldened Pelosi.
The wheeling and dealing has already begun in the House. Nancy Pelosi [...]
I have stated in a couple of posts that people, especially young people, will simply opt to pay the $750 a year penalty rather than purchase health insurance.
Since the health care bill will remove pre-existing illness exclusions and not allow insurance companies to charge more based on a person’s medical history, why would an otherwise [...]
A new poll finds that the vast majority of Americans don’t want public funds to be used to pay for abortion. In addition, the majority of Americans (nearly a 20 point margin) oppose Obamacare in general. Obama and Reid are ramming through their health care bill, while most Americans and conservative talk show hosts are [...]
While Harry Reid and Ben Nelson have tried to sell us on the notion that no federal funds will be used to pay for abortions, the reality is that they have lied. Or, at the very minimum, chosen words very carefully to hide the truth.
Instead, they are playing accounting tricks. Instead of using ‘federal funds’ [...]
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Fox and Friends this morning, showing clear anger and frustration, gave his take on several aspect of President Obama and Harry Reid’s health care bill, and the unprecedented process they are using to shove it through congress.
Graham was asked if there is a legal problem with Ben Nelson’s deal:
Legally, I [...]
I have no doubt that the more time that passes, and the more this bill is digested, the more shocking details will arise. It is important to remember that the contents of Reid’s managers amendment have only been public since Saturday — even the majority of Democratic Senators hadn’t seen it.
Michelle Malkin documents the multiple [...]
The morning after we have to ask ourselves how we got to this point.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air says:
Harry Reid passed his cloture bill a few hours ago, forcing the Senate to remain in session while America slept in order to meet an arbitrary deadline for his version of ObamaCare. As expected after the reversal [...]
So, have you heard the one about how a single payer system is far superior to private insurance? About how unlike private insurance, with a government controlled plan nobody will be denied coverage?
Yea, I’ve heard those liberal whoppers as well.
Mary Theroux of The Independent Institute throws some cold water on the lie you’ve been hearing [...]
The federal program that is nearly bankrupt; that the Mayo Clinic says is already close to bringing financial ruin to hospitals and doctors around the country; and, that will soon have an influx of new participants from the ranks of this country’s aging population has been touted as the model system by liberal Democrats.
David Janda [...]
Let’s recount some of the promises that President Obama and Democratic members of Congress have made:
Obama will reach across party lines and work closely with Republicans on key legislature
Health care amounts for 1/6 of the US economy and it is crucial to get it right
The White House will be the most transparent administration in history [...]
Harry Reid and President Obama are trying to use sleight of hand and cries of urgency to perpetrate a fraud on the citizens of the United States of America, again.
Earlier in the month, in yet another free commercial for the President, also known as a Charlie Gibson interview, President Obama stated that if we didn’t [...]
Our friends at the Patriot Room made us aware of this.
The health care task force has put together a page with contact information (twitter, facebook, email, phone) for seven key senators in Harry Reid’s attempt to rush his health care bill through before anyone has had time to read it.
If they vote for cloture without [...]
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs won’t be able to continue to dismiss poll after poll with a glib, I could draw that graph with a crayon comment. In yet another blow to President Obama’s health care reform (we use the term reform loosely here), Rasmussen confirms the results of other recent polls showing that [...]
From the “nothing they do will surprise me” file, Harry Reid is now threatening the Republican Senators. Telling them if they don’t back down and roll over on the Health care and defense spending legislation that Reid will schedule votes at late night and early morning.
The Examiner reports Reid’s shenanigans:
Senate Democrats are threatening Republicans with [...]