First, president Obama on reconciliation in 2005. Just replace "TANF program" with "health care", "health care policy", "health insurance regulations," etc:
The TANF program affects millions of American children and families and deserves a full and fair debate. Under the rules, the reconciliation process does not permit that debate. ...
With Democrats looking at budget reconciliation to bypass a Senate filibuster and pass their health care "reform" bills, it's worth noting what leading Democrat politicians said a few years ago about using procedural rules to avoid a filibuster:
I think NakedEmporerNews originally uploaded this. As Ross Kaminsky points out, Human Events ...
Polis calls for Senate to add public option to health care bill, reports the Daily Camera (Boulder). As Paul Hsieh, MD has noted:
In the Dec. 10 [2008] Wall Street Journal, Polis wrote: "Our United States Congress... now finds itself poring over 'business plans' submitted this week by Ford, GM and ...
From Americans for Prosperity:
With back-room dealing and political payoffs at a fever pitch on the attempted Washington, D.C. health care takeover, we must remind President Obama of his promises to the American people to bring genuine "transparency" to this whole sordid process.
So, I'm asking you to sign a petition to President ...
That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are ... - Barack Obama, Jan. 31 2008
From the AP:
House and Senate Democrats ...
Patients First summarizes of how the House and Senate health care bills fail to meet president Obama's promises:
They won't "slow the growth of health care costs."
They won't "make the insurance you have work better for you," or increase choice and competition
They won't address out-of-control Medicare and Medicaid spending
The currently uninsured ...
Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute has a well-documented article at Sphere explaining some false claims about of the looming health care "reform" (HR 3590)
Health care reform will reduce your insurance premiums.
Middle-class taxes won't be raised.
You can keep your current insurance
It will only cost $848 billion. (As if that would ...
A one-minute video shows the discrepency between their promises for transparency and how the House Bill and Senate bill have progressed:
(Via Patients First)
By not accounting for the cost to taxpayers of mandatory insurance, the Congressional Budget Office is hiding the true cost of the Senate health care "reform" bill. Michael Cannon at Cato writes that:
CBO’s score of the Clinton health plan is that the private-sector mandates accounted for around 60 percent of ...
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 ...
