Health Care

With President Obama and the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate urging health care reform through reconciliation, several Senators are speaking out against using reconciliation. Reconciliation was set up to allow for budget items to get through Congress after both the House and Senate passed slightly different bills.  However, both parties have used reconciliation...
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid has indicated that Congressional Democrats will use reconciliation to pass health care reform.  With the Democrat’s version of health care reform supported by less than 40% of Americans, it is no wonder that barely 20% of Americans approve of the job that congress is doing. Reconciliation is a process that was...
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Once again the media is pushing stories about obscene health insurance company profits.  According to a recent report from Health Care For America Now, health insurance company profits for 2009 were over 56% higher than 2008.  The report also called out CIGNA for a whopping 346% increase in profits. The liberal-leaning, union-bankrolled Health Care For...
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In the recent SOTU address, the President told opponents to the Democrat health care reform plans to come up with better ideas and he will consider them.  The problem is that congressional Democrats have been crafting the health care reform bills in secret and behind closed doors.  They have forgotten that bipartisanship means working...
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Many political pundits are talking about how the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts was at least partially due to independent voters in Massachusetts showing their displeasure with how Obama and the Democrats are pursuing their agenda.  However, it appears that the White House is clueless about what the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts means. On...
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With the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, Obama and House and Senate Democrats are wondering how they can pass any version of Obamacare.  Lacking the 60 votes (bought or otherwise) in the Senate leaves Democrats a few very unpopular options such as pretending that Obamacare is a budget bill or having the unpopular...
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After the Senate passed their version of Obamacare health care reform, the labor unions began to object to the tax on the so called Cadillac insurance plans.  Today, the administration is announcing that they have reached a deal with labor leaders to gain the support of the nations unions. The terms of the deal will increase...
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Now that both the Senate and House have passed two different health care reform bills in support of Obamacare, the two houses of congress must come together to craft one bill.  This is proving to be more difficult than the Democrats had thought with various special interest groups opposing different components of the two bills. One...
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After several weeks of wrangling , kickbacks, and out and out bribes, the Senate passed their version of Obamacare by a 60 to 39 vote along party lines. However, this doesn’t mean the bill is headed directly to the President’s desk. The Senate health care bill has to be reconciled with the House health care bill...
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Both the House Obamacare bill and the Senate Obamacare bill rely on massive tax increases on the American people.  Most of the major Obamacare details are known.  However, as more and more Obamacare details come to light, the impacts of the Obamacare bill on the American people become clear. One such impact is the capping...
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