Posts Tagged ‘ health care reform ’

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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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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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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Last week, Nancy Pelosi unveiled the nearly 2000 page new version of the the House Health Care Reform Bill.  Pelosi pointed out that her version of the health care reform bill was under the $900 billion price tag that President Obama put on the plan. Pelosi indicated that the bill would cost just under $894...
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The Democrat controlled House unveiled their nearly 2,000 page Health Care Reform bill this week providing another version of Obamacare.  One of the easier ways to reduce costs have been left out of most of the bills penned so far this year.  However, the newest House bill that Nancy Pelosi introduced does include a provision...
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Everyone remembers President Obama declaring that public insurance options would not cover illegal immigrants and Rep Joe Wilson shouting “You lie!”  We have also reported that the Congressional Research Service has stated that HR 3200 would cover illegal immigrants. There have also been numerous attempts by House and Senate Republicans to add amendments to the...
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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) introduced...
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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 be...
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