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Congressman Ron Paul on the Unconstitutional Health Care Bill
Ron Paul and Stuart Varney discuss the economic, moral, and constitutional problems with the health care reform bill on Fox Business.
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Push to Repeal ObamaCare Begins
Posted by Tim Shoemaker on 03/22/10
Early Monday morning, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) introduced legislation calling for repeal of ObamaCare, describing it as an "arrogant power grab."
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"Unless this trillion-dollar assault on our freedoms is repealed, it will force Americans to purchase Washington-approved health plans or face stiff penalties," DeMint said in a release. "It will fund abortions, raise taxes and insurance premiums, while reducing health care choices and quality."
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DeMint is not the only one fighting back however.
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Walking the plank with a ‘yes’ vote
Posted by Matt Holdridge on 03/22/10
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The polarizing health care votes cast late Sunday will have a profound effect on reelection campaigns across the nation, leaving a host of House Democrats—and a few Republicans—to explain or defend a politically treacherous vote that could determine control of the House come November.
Some members of Congress will end up with primary challenges as a result. Others may have signed their own political death warrant.
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34773.html to see Politico's rundown of lawmakers whose reelection prospects have been significantly imperiled by their announced support of health care reform.
Do any of them represent you? If so, do you think they're re-election is in peril?
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Right-Wing Obamacare
Posted by Matt Holdridge on 03/22/10
From Dan McCarthy at the American Conservative:
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Whether it’s called Obamacare or Romneycare, and whether it’s right-wing or left-wing, the further cartelization of the healthcare system is a very bad idea. In exchange for extending coverage to high-risk individuals, the insurance industry is promised guaranteed profits from a consumer base — that is, people like you and me — that is legally compelled to purchase its product.
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Continue the Fight for Free Market Health Care
Posted by John Tate on 03/22/10
Late Sunday night, the U.S. House of Representatives abandoned the Constitution, made a mockery of the words of the Founders, and drew a line in the sand as it passed the Senate's health care bill 219-212. The morning after the federal government acted yet again to increase its control over our lives, the freedom movement has two clear options.
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"The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform"
Posted by Matt Hawes on 03/22/10
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, details the case in The New York Times for why the House-passed legislation will deepen the debt and examines the tricks employed to make it look like this bill will save taxpayer dollars.
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In reality, if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus, a wholly different picture emerges: The health care reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562 billion....
Even worse, some costs are left out entirely. To operate the new programs over the first 10 years, future Congresses would need to vote for $114 billion in additional annual spending. But this so-called discretionary spending is excluded from the Congressional Budget Office's tabulation....
Finally, in perhaps the most amazing bit of unrealistic accounting, the legislation proposes to trim $463 billion from Medicare spending and use it to finance insurance subsidies. But Medicare is already bleeding red ink, and the health care bill has no reforms that would enable the program to operate more cheaply in the future. Instead, Congress is likely to continue to regularly override scheduled cuts in payments to Medicare doctors and other providers....
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Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/op...ltz-eakin.html
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Health care reform now faces Senate challenge
By Ed Hornick, CNN
March 22, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- Now that the House has passed the Senate's health care reform bill and a package meant to reconcile differences between the House and Senate bills, the next step is for members of the Senate to sign off on those changes.
That won't be as easy as it sounds.
Senate Republicans have indicated they will use any and all legislative tactics in order to slow -- even stop -- the reconciliation bill from passing.
President Obama is expected to sign the health care bill Tuesday at the earliest. Only then can the Senate begin dealing with the reconciliation package.
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