Most Americans did not support the passage of the Obamacare style healthcare reform bill. As time goes by, Americans, including members of Congress who voted for the healthcare reform bill without knowing what was in the bill, are becoming increasing alarmed by the impacts to health insurance. As the government begins to implement the...
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Obamacare Determines What Insurance Companies Will Pay For
Health Care Reform a Done Deal?
With the issuing of an executive order, President Obama may have tipped the scales in favor of the Democrat Health Care Reform plan. Representative Bart Stupak has indicated that with the assurance that an executive order barring the use of federal funds for abortions issued by President Obama, he and several other pro-life Democrats...
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Health Care Reform Through Reconciliation Wrong According to Many Senators
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...
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Reid:Health Care Reform Through Reconciliation
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...
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Obscene Health Insurance Company Profits for 2009
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...
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Four Smart Health Care Reform Steps Democrats Won’t Consider
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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White House Clueless Over Scott Brown Win in Massachusetts
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....
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SEIU Warns Obama: Pass Obamacare or Else
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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Obama Exempts Unions from Cadillac Tax, For Now…
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...
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Cadillac Insurance Tax and a House Divided
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....
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