The Senate has passed the health care ("reform" = entrenchment-of-everything-bad-about-health-care-policy) bill. But is the battle over? From Dan Perrin at Red State on Jim DeMint's objection to conferee appointments:
because of the Senator DeMint’s objection, unless the House votes for the Senate bill unchanged — which is highly unlikely (see below) ...
A Wall Street Journal editorial summarizes:
[Harry Reid] is claiming that a Medicare "buy-in" for people from ages 55 to 64 has overcome the liberal-moderate impasse over the "public option." But if anything, this gambit is an even faster road to government-run health care. ...
Mr. Reid's buy-in simply cuts out the ...
As you've probably heard, Senate Majority Leader Harry Read likens those who oppose the Democrats' so-called health care "reform" as those who opposed the end of slavery:
Melissa Clouthier points out the irony of this, as it is the Democrats' plans that erode our freedom and makes us more like slaves ...
Writes Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has announced that he has reached a super secret compromise on how to deal with the so-called public option for health reform." Instead of a public option, "Congress would establish a program similar to the Federal Employees ...
Grace-Marie Turner explains reasons why the public will not like the Senate's so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. A summary of her article in the Washington Examiner:
1. Exploding costs.
2. Losing your current coverage.
3. Job-killing taxes on employers.
4. Budgetary gimmick -- tax now, spend later.
5. Increasing future health care spending.
6. ...
From the Denver Business Journal on Mark Udall:
Udall, D-Colo., said he is “carefully reviewing this legislation,” entitled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But he did say he was “encouraged” that the measure, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled on Wednesday, “is estimated to drive down the federal ...
From the Wall Street Journal:
...the bills are fiscally dishonest, using every budget gimmick and trick in the book: Leave out inconvenient spending, back-load spending to disguise the true scale, front-load tax revenues, let inflation push up tax revenues, promise spending cuts to doctors and hospitals that have no record of ...
HSA-qualified insurance: affordable premiums, patients spend prudently & take responsibility for their own health, and can save for future expenses. But politicians like Harry Reid want to make HSA-qualified insurance plans illegal.
Read about it in the Wall Street Journal: The End of HSAs: Harry Reid wants to kill consumer-driven health ...
Both the House and Senate care bills include a new government-run health plan. (See the Wall Street Journal's comparison.) In June I wrote the following:
Supporters of the “public insurance option,” that is, government-run insurance that competes with commercial insurers sense opposition: People realize it’s unfair competition. You know, like playing ...
The Institute for Health Freedom advises you to contact your Senator today about tomorrow's vote "on a motion to proceed" on Harry Reid's health care bill (Sat. Nov 21). There are many reasons not to like this bill. The Institute summarizes:
The bill would (among many other provisions):
require nearly every ...
