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Polis calls for Senate to add “public option” to health care bill
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Jared Polis, politician credibility, single payer
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Petition to Pres. Obama and Congress: Let the Cameras In
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 … Continue reading
AP on health bills: “meaningful negotiations occur behind closed doors”
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged HR 3590, HR 3962, politician credibility, politics of health care
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Health care bills fail to meet Obama’s promises
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 … Continue reading
Democrats’ health reform: higher taxes, premiums, & deficit
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 … Continue reading
Little transparency in Democrat health care “reform”
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) Similar Posts: Dems renege on health care bill transparancy Petition to Pres. Obama and Congress: Let … Continue reading
Congressional Budget Office hides costs of health care bill
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Congressional Budget Office, HR 3590, mandatory insurance, politician credibility, taxes
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Dishonest cost projections for Democrat health bills
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 … Continue reading
Government health care cost overruns
Harry Reid’s Senate health bill up for a procedural vote on Saturday, which could allow it to move forward to debate. (Yet Republicans are pushing to read the whole thing, which could take 34 hours!) In any case, be wary … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, government spending, politician credibility
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Dems renege on health care bill transparancy
From John Fund in the Wall Street Journal: Back in September, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters she was “absolutely” committed to having the final language of any health care bill posted on the Internet for 72 hours before a … Continue reading