The Senate Finance committee voted 15 to 8 and 13 to 10 in a bipartisan vote rejecting amendments to the Finance Committee’s deliberation over the senate health care reform bill. As Max Baucus (D – MT) pushed his committee to draft a bill that would pass in the Senate, Senators Rockefeller (D-WV) and Schumer (D – NY)...
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Archive for September, 2009
Public Option Stumbles in Congress
Failure to enroll in Obamacare Could Lead to Jail Time
Last weekend when President Obama was making the rounds on the Sunday talk shows, he told George Stephanopoulos that forcing people to get health insurance isn’t a tax. You can agree or disagree with the facts on if it is a tax or not. However, if you fail to enroll in health care, you...
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The Indoctrination of the Obama Youth
Parents at a New Jersey school are upset that their K - 2 age children are being taught songs to praise Obama. According to FOX News, the school is currently on lock down after the principle has received death threats as a video of the children singing praises to Obama made the rounds on the Internet showing apparent...
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Insurance Companies and The Profit Myth
President Obama is devoted to eliminating all the myths that exist around the Health Care Reform plans. However, the Administration is one of the main sources of those myths. One of the myths that the Obama Administration is pushing is that the government will be able to provide health care cheaper as they will...
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Another Lie Joe Wilson Missed in Obama’s Health Care Speech
Earlier this month, Rep. Joe Wilson uttered the “You Lie” shout heard around the world in response to President Obama’s claim that illegal immigrants would not be covered under the President’s plan. To be fair, Obama may not have been talking about HR 3200. However, if the President was referring to HR 3200, the...
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Is Health Care Reform Killing Cap and Trade?
As the president and congressional democrats try to push health care reform despite strong republican and public opposition, several of the President’s other key agenda items are being put on the political back burner. “It’s a difficult schedule” with many members already “anxious” about health care reform” - Senator Dick Durbin Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)...
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Unemployment Continues to Rise Despite Stimulus
We reported earlier in the year that the stimulus bill isn’t helping the employment picture. When the Obama administration was pushing for the bill, they said that doing nothing would push unemployment over 8%. On Friday, the labor department reported that unemployment rose to a 26 year high of 9.7 percent. Hotair.com has a...
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