Posted on 11/07/2009 8:13:32 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
Health Care Bills Passes the US House
CSPAN ^
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:07:41 PM by jern
Just had the 218th vote, which is what they need to psas th ebill
Live Thread: House of Representatives Votes on Obamacare 11-07-09
U.S. House of Representatives ^ | 11/07/09
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:35:32 PM by pillut48
Pelosi has the votes
The Politico ^ | November 7, 2009 | Ben Smith
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:23:21 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
POLITICO reports:
Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they've secured the 218 votes they need to approve the bill, several party insiders said.
Democrats eye big victory on health care
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/7/9 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:08:24 PM by SmithL
Washington - -- President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were poised to win a stupendous - but still incomplete - victory Saturday, predicting House passage of the biggest expansion of health care coverage since Medicare's creation in 1964, in the face of unanimous Republican opposition.
AMA to Reverse Health Care Bill Endorsement?
FoxNews.com ^
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:02:01 AM by DadOfFive
The American Medical Association's much-touted endorsement of the House health care reform bill has triggered a revolt among some members who want the endorsement withdrawn. Some members are outraged that the group's trustees made the endorsement without the formal approval of the organization's House of Delegates. On Monday, delegates will vote on a resolution offered by some members that, if approved, will withdraw the AMA’s endorsement of the bill.
Revolt at the American Medical Association over health care bill endorsement
The Washington Times-Water Cooler ^ | 11/7/09 | Kerry Picket
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:17:27 PM by paltz
The American Medical Association House of Delegates drew up a resolution last night which would withdraw their support of the House health care bill. Members are likely to vote on whether or not to withdraw their support of the bill earlier in the week. This action is a result of members within the organization who revolted, when the AMA initially gave the the healthcare legislation its endorsement. President Obama touted the endorsement of the AMA and AARP on Thursday at the White House.
‘Kill the Bill’ : Protestors Target Health Care
CBN ^ | 6 Nov | Jennifer Wishon
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 3:11:28 AM by chuck_the_tv_out
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has postponed his plan to visit the capitol Friday in order to lobby Congress on health care reform.
Instead, he’ll visit the hill on Saturday when House lawmakers are planning to vote on a $1.2 trillion health care bill.
The Cost of Health Care Reform
Townhall.com ^ | November 7, 2009 | Michael Tanner
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:12:43 AM by Kaslin
The health care reform bill unveiled by House Democrats last week looks increasingly like one of the most expensive pieces of legislation in history.
When Democrats announced the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed the bill cost only-only!-$894 billion over the next ten years. But outside analysts, including the Congressional Budget Office, suggest that the real cost will be far, far higher.
Obama Calls Holdouts on Healthcare
Real Clear Politics ^ | Nov 6, 2009 | David Espo
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:18:34 AM by lt.america
House Democrats have cleared an impasse over abortion that has been holding up a vote on sweeping health care legislation.
A vote is expected on Saturday — after President Barack Obama makes a late morning trip to the Capitol to make one final pitch for the legislation.
According to Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, he and other abortion opponents will be given a chance to insert tougher abortion restrictions into the legislation during debate on the House floor.
Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
Fox News ^ | November 06, 2009 | Andrew Napolitano
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:23:08 AM by Need4Truth
Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.
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We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom.
House Republicans plan to vote unanimously against health-care measure
Washington Post ^ | November 7, 2009 | Perry Bacon
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:06:49 AM by La Lydia
The 177 Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to unanimously oppose health-care legislation that would constitute the biggest expansion of insurance to Americans in decades, illustrating the huge divide that remains between the two parties on key issues and setting up a major debate in next year's elections. The universal opposition to the health-care bill, which Congress could vote on as soon as Saturday, was long expected, but Republican wins in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races on Tuesday further emboldened the GOP...
Flawed health reform - House measure likely to pass but needs a dose of fiscal reality.
Washington Post ^ | November 7, 2009 | Editorial
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:29:40 AM by La Lydia
MUCH OF the criticism of the health-care measure before the House of Representatives is overwrought. Another part is simply wrong. Unfortunately, that does not mean that this is a good bill. As we have said, it does not do enough to control costs, and it is not funded in a sustainable way...
ObamaCare’s Redistribution of Health
Pajamas Media ^ | Novmeber 6 | Tom Blumer
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:34:14 PM by AJKauf
The “public option” is not about “competition.” It is about elimination. That “the uninsured” receive “coverage” is only incidental.
The newly conceived entity will more than likely not have to pay federal, state, or local income taxes, and may not have to pay a myriad of other taxes private companies must pay unless they wish to go out of business. This entity will often be in a position to use existing government-owned facilities instead of having to pay for its own. Some of its employees, overhead, and outside services may be charged to other sectors of the government. It may, because of sovereign immunity, be exempt from crippling lawsuits and related legal costs. This stack of playing field de-levelers constitutes what the bill’s sponsors call “competition.” It’s really a sick (pun intended) joke.
Obama appeals for health care votes
http://news.yahoo.com/ ^
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:35:13 PM by Lucky9teen
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation.
His appeal came during a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday as the House began debating a bill to expand coverage to millions who lack it.
Obama made his trip to the Capitol complex as abortion rights lawmakers voiced anger at a last-minute concession granted to foes of the procedure.
Abortion Deal Clears Way for Health Care Vote
ABC News ^
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:46:44 PM by Blue Turtle
House Democrats reached an agreement on a contentious abortion provision overnight that appears to clear the way for a final vote on health care legislation today.
President Obama Goes to U.S. Capitol to Lobby Dems to Vote for Health Care Bill - Raw Video 11/7/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | November 7, 2009 | BrianinMO
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:13:18 PM by Federalist Patriot
Here is raw video of President Barack Obama today visiting the U.S. Capitol to personally lobby Democrats to support the Democrats' Health Care Bill. He met with Democrats privately, and then took time to preen in front of the cameras with Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer. . . . (VIDEO)
CBO: New House Health Bill Spending Estimate, $3 Trillion over 10 Years (22% of GDP)
Redstate ^ | November 7th | Dan Perrin citing senator Judd Gregg
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:27:10 PM by Mount Athos
Senator Gregg stated, “The CBO estimate released last night finally sheds light on the smoke and mirrors game the majority has been playing with the cost of their health care reform proposal. Over the first 10 years, this legislation builds in gross new spending of $1.7 trillion – and most of the new spending doesn’t even start until 2014. Once that spending is fully phased in, the House Democratic bill rings up at more than $3 trillion over ten years.
Return of the Poll Tax - Obama, Reid and Pelosi's Democrat health care plan
The Dallas Examiner ^ | November 6, 2009 | Charles Nichols
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 1:34:37 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
When the US Constitution was first adopted there was no Federal Income Tax. The Federal government was fortunately limited in the amount of taxes it could take in. One form of taxation was a tax on goods called an excise tax which is still in existence. Another was the Poll tax which is a direct tax on individuals.
The Federal Income Tax was added to the US Constitution in 1913. Everyone reading this who has ever had a job knows how it works so I won’t elaborate. For you younger readers, it basically works this way. The Federal government lets you keep a small amount of money that you earn and once you go above that amount they start taking increasingly larger percentages of what you make.
So if one doesn’t mind living in poverty, one can actually escape paying the income tax.
PELOSI'S HEALTH CARE CHART: THE MOTHER OF ALL BUREAUCRACIES
THE FREEDOM POST ^ | November 7, 2009 | TheCapitalist
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:09:18 PM by TheFreedomPoster
The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff, which earlier this year created a chart mapping the bureaucratic complexity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s original health care proposal (H.R. 3200), has combined similar analysis by the House Republican Conference with the earlier chart. The analysis details new additions to the health care bureaucracy contained in the new version of the Speaker’s bill (H.R. 3962) that were not previously listed. Let’s just say the Speaker’s vision for government-run health care hasn’t gotten any simpler.
'This is our moment,' Obama says of health care reform
CNN Political Ticker ^ | November 7, 2009 | staff
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:17:12 PM by Baladas
Edited on Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:22:51 PM by Admin Moderator. [history]
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama Saturday said members of the House of Representatives face the chance of a lifetime as they consider legislation on health care reform.
In a meeting with the House Democratic leadership, the president said he told lawmakers "that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation.
Obama: 'Now's the Time to Finish the Job' on Health Care Reform [Says:"This Is Our Moment"]
FoxNews ^ | November 07th, 2009
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:36:33 PM by Steelfish
Obama: 'Now's the Time to Finish the Job' on Health Care Reform
Moments after President Obama's comments, the health care legislation cleared its first hurdle when Democrats approved a rule setting the terms of the debate.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama urged the House on Saturday to "finish the job" in passing its version of a sweeping health care overhaul after he met privately with Democrats.
"This is our moment to live up to the trust that the American people has placed in us, even when it's hard -- especially when it's hard," he said from the Rose Garden of the White House. "This is our moment to deliver."
70 Percent of Specialty Doctors Oppose Health-care Reform Proposals
News-Medical.Net ^ | 19. August 2009 | News-Medical.Net
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 2:59:53 PM by Son House
The American Society of Medical Doctors (ASMD) today released a nationwide, nonpartisan poll* of physicians showing that:
70 percent of specialty doctors oppose current Congressional and White House proposals for health-care reform;
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options (Pelosi breaks word to Rep Buyer no amendments)
REPUBLICAN PRESS RELEASE ^ | November 6, 2009 | Rep Buyer abd Rep McKeon
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:38:00 PM by Former Military Chick
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Ranking Member Steve Buyer and House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Howard P. “Buck” McKeon offered three amendments to the Pelosi healthcare bill that would protect America’s Veterans and military TRICARE beneficiaries. The healthcare legislation, which is expected to be voted on in the full House in the coming days limits veteran’s and service member’s health care choices and places veterans and military health care unnecessarily at risk by not clearly excluding military and veterans health care from the requirements of the bill.
Paul Ryan Says Dem Health Care Plan Will Create a "European Style Social Welfare State" - Video
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | November 7, 2009 | BrianinMO
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:58:37 PM by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan today on the House Floor making an outstanding speech against the Democrats' government takeover of Health Care.
Ryan said the Dems Health Care Bill replaces the American "idea" with a "European-style social welfare state." He said it makes Americans "dependent on the Government instead of dependent on themselves."
Two More Dems (announce opposition to ObamaCare - "no" votes up to 31...need 10 more)
National Review ^ | November 7, 2009 | Robert Costa
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:08:39 PM by St. Louis Conservative
From Cantor's office:
Below is a list of 31 Democrats, from coast-to-coast & north to south, who have listened to their constituents and joined Republicans in a bipartisan fashion to oppose Speaker Pelosi’s trillion dollar plus overhaul of the nation’s health care system (Updated is bold):
Health Reform Passes a Big Test, With Obama’s Aid [The Beginning of American Socialism!]
NYTimes ^ | November 07th, 2009
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:32:40 PM by Steelfish
Health Reform Passes a Big Test, With Obama’s Aid
CARL HULSE; ROBERT PEAR November 7, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Obama exhorted Democrats on Saturday to approve a sweeping overhaul of health care and to “answer the call of history” as the House began debating legislation that would transform the nation’s health insurance system.
MoveOn Threatens to Push Primary Opponents to Dems Voting Against Health Plan
Fox News ^ | 11/6/2009 | Fox / AP
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:24:40 PM by EagleUSA
A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.
Could health care reform lead to hidden taxes? (Yes and it will)
MSNBC ^ | 11/7/2009 | Jane Sasseen
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:27:36 PM by tobyhill
As a candidate and president, Barack Obama has had one core message for the middle class: I won't raise your taxes. The White House has pledged that only the wealthy — families earning more than $250,000 — would face a boost in income, capital gains, or other taxes. For the 97 percent of Americans below that level, no increases are in store
But as Congress inches closer to forging a massive package of health-care reforms, it's increasingly clear how difficult it will be to keep that pledge. To pay for the near trillion-dollar health-care system overhaul — not to mention reining in the deficit and funding other ambitious plans Obama has laid out for the years ahead — many outside the White House believe the middle class will not be spared. Republican critics contend that the White House is misleading the public about who will ultimately shoulder much of the cost of extending coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
Healthcare bill - the end of physician 'right of conscience' ( 95% will leave )
One News Now ^ | November 6th | Pete Chagnon
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:22:29 PM by Halfmanhalfamazing
The CEO of the Christian Medical Association says government-run healthcare will mean the end of right of conscience for physicians.
The House promises a vote on healthcare reform by Saturday, although a version of the bill would still need to be approved by the Senate. Dr. David Stevens warns if that happens, many will feel inclined to leave the medical profession.
"It's going to damage right of conscience for faith-based healthcare professionals. We actually surveyed 2,800 faith-based doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, and 95 percent of them said they will leave healthcare if it came down to violating their conscience on abortion, human cloning, physician-assisted suicide, and other issues," Stevens reports. "And this bill, particularly the one in the Senate, provides absolutely no protection, even though it's guaranteed to us in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights."
Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch [Obama Calls Tea-Party Protesters "Extremists"!]
NYTimes ^ | November 07th, 2009
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:00:45 PM by Steelfish
November 7, 2009
Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch
By JACKIE CALMES In an odd coincidence, the House debate on Saturday to overhaul health care took place on the third anniversary of the 2006 election that gave Democrats majority control after 12 years of Republican dominance.
It fell to President Obama and to Congressional leaders to persuade those Democrats still sweating the final vote that it would not prove the party’s undoing in next November’s midterm elections.
Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats’ newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district that Republicans had held since 1872. In the campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens’ conservative rival.
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
Blue Dog Democrats Hold Key
Wall St. Journal ^ | November 07th, 2009
Posted on Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:38:07 PM by Steelfish
Blue Dog Democrats Hold Key
PATRICK YOEST
WASHINGTON — A group of fiscally conservative House Democrats is set to vote on a health-care bill that virtually all of its members think does too little to rein in health costs and keep the federal budget deficit under control.
But by all indications, the 52-member group -- known as the Blue Dog Coalition -- will split in the voting. The lawmakers, some of whom played an instrumental role in passing a version of the bill approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, have met continually to discuss health-care issues but haven't taken a shared position.
Step 1 towards the civil war.
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