Posted on 02/28/2010 7:50:36 PM PST by socialismisinsidious
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
InvestmentNews.com ^ | Feb 28 2010 | By Dan Jamieson
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:29:31 AM by Brugmansian
President Barack Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households.
The health care proposal that the White House released last Monday would extend the existing 2.9% Medicare tax to unearned income — including interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rent — for taxpayers with income exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for couples.
Here's why Dems keep pushing 'dead' Obamacare despite growing public opposition
Washington Examiner ^ | 02/27/10 | Mark Tapscott
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:57:02 AM by kingattax
For months, President Obama and his congressional Democratic allies led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have pushed forward with their radical plans to socialize American health care despite repeated public opinion surveys showing mounting public opposition.
Now, following the White House health care summit, Obama and company are pushing forward with their plan to ram Obamacare through Congress with bare minimum majorities made up entirely of Democrats.
Pelosi: (Despite The Public Against It) Lawmakers Should Sacrifice Jobs for Health Care
fox news ^ | 2/28/2010 | AP
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:17:53 AM by tobyhill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue's massive role in this election year.
Lawmakers sometimes must enact policies that, even if unpopular at the moment, will help the public, Pelosi said in an interview being broadcast Sunday the ABC News program "This Week." "We're not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress," she said. "We're here to do the job for the American people."
Pelosi to Dems: Support health bill, even if it kills career
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 28, 2010
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:54:38 PM by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation today as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama's chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.
Are Democrats choosing to run off a cliff with ObamaCare?
Hotair ^ | 02/27/2010 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 12:25:48 PM by SeekAndFind
Republicans have reacted with understandable glee to the Democratic insistence on extending the debate on ObamaCare. After all, we are coming up on eight months since the Democrats first introduced this bill and attempted to rush it through Congress. In that time, their polling has plunged, grassroots reaction has exploded, and a popular new President has seen his standing rapidly fall with voters. The midterms look like a disaster already, and a last-ditch effort by Democrats to use parliamentary tricks to pass a broadly unpopular bill will only make that worse.
Are Democrats acting irrationally, refusing to see the cliff in front of them? Andy McCarthy says no — and that Republicans need to understand that:
White House: Simple up-or-down vote on health care
Breitbart ^ | 2/28/10 | JIM KUHNHENN
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:20:53 PM by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama's chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.
In voicing support for a simple majority vote, White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama's intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under Senate rules that would overcome GOP stalling tactics.
White House OK on health care with or without GOP
Breitbart ^ | 2/28/10 | ap
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 1:40:13 PM by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House's top health care official is optimistic that Democrats will have the votes to pass a major health care overhaul.
Presidential adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle says it makes sense to have a "simple up-or-down vote" on legislation, now that Democrats lack the 60 votes necessary to overcome Republican stalling tactics.
The Senate's Democratic leaders are try to devise a strategy for passing the legislation with a simple 51-vote majority. There are 57 Democrats in the Senate and two Democratic leaning independents.
Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 37: Obamacare Opponents “Sub-human” and “Ghouls”
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | February 28, 2010 | David Forsmark
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:21:17 PM by HorowitzianConservative
A week ago Keith Olbermann slandered the Founders by falsely claiming…
OLBERMANN: Not very many of the founding fathers were evolved enough to believe that black people were actually people.
But this week, Olbermann denied the humanity of people who dare to disagree with him on nationalizing the health care system.
OLBERMANN: … the protests of these sub- humans who get paid by the insurance companies…
Pelosi: GOP has had its day; confident Dems can pull together on health bill
The Hill ^ | 2-28-10 | Kim Hart and Jordan Fabian
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:38:17 PM by Justaham
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans have left their mark on the healthcare bill and should accept that the bill will go forward.
"They've had plenty of opportunity to make their voices heard," she said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning. "Bipartisanship is a two-way street. A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Republicans have left their imprint."
Every Day ObamaCare Delayed 200 Lives Saved
Conservative Examiner ^ | 2/28/2010 | Anthony G. Martin
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 4:40:29 PM by Welshman007
Every day that ObamaCare is delayed from being approved an estimated 200 lives are saved.
This figure is reached by taking into account the number of persons who will be denied healthcare due to the rationing built into the system.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Purveyors of the death squads--Pelosi and Hoyer at the Health Summit.
Supporters of ObamaCare/PelosiCare/ReidCare maintain that roughly 60 lives are lost each day the implementation of government-controlled healthcare reform is delayed. However, it cannot be proved that anyone, anywhere in this country lost their lives due to the lack of health insurance.
GOV. PALIN REACTS TO HEALTH CARE SUMMIT
The Cypress Times ^ | 2/28/10 | Ron Devito
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:11:56 PM by Patriot1259
“Michele Bachmann summed it up very well. She suggested that ‘maybe the beer summit was more productive and fruitful than what we saw today coming out of the health care summit. Maybe these guys should have popped some tops off of some MGBs and really gotten down to business.’ ”
Obama's Democrats voice new confidence on healthcare
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/28/10 | Thomas Ferraro
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:23:09 PM by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the Congress voiced confidence on Sunday they will have the votes, possibly within a couple of months or so, to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the healthcare system.
Republicans Gird for Democrats' End Run on Health Care (CBO double counts Medicare savings, taxes)
Fox News ^ | 2/28/10
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:36:30 PM by Libloather
The Senate appears to be gearing up to use a rare budgetary maneuver to push through a Democratic-supported health care overhaul, but even the Senate Democrat's top budgeter says it can't be used for wholesale reforms.
**SNIP**
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the funding elements of the bill won't balance spending the way Democrats assert.
New Bill Would Make Vitamins Too Costly for Your Health [McCain/Dorgan]
Expert Click ^ | February 22, 2010 | Alan Caruba
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:14:22 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
At age 72, I have been taking a full range of vitamin and mineral supplements for years. Even I find it amusing to open more than a dozen bottles every morning to extract vitamins A, B, C, D and E, along with zinc, potassium, selenium, and fish oil. On the advice of my physician long ago, I also take a low dose aspirin every day. I also take some herbal supplements.
In early January, I fell and broke my collar bone. A month later, it was completely healed. I don't get the common cold, although I do experience seasonal allergies that are controlled with anti-histamine. In sum, I am as healthy as a person of my age can hope to be.
So why have Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) joined to introduce an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act that would deny freedom of easy access to these vitamins and minerals that are now commonly available in supermarkets, pharmacies and other outlets at affordable prices?
Pelosi: Health care bill can be bipartisan even without GOP votes
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/28/pelosi-health-care-bill-can-be-bipartisan-even-without-gop-votes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2Brss%2Fcnn_politicalticker%2B(Blog%3A%2BPolitical%2BTicker)&fbid=n6DRYa8Q4WO ^
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:37:33 PM by chessplayer
Washington (CNN) - The top House Democrat appears to be signaling that her party has all but given up any hope of achieving meaningful bipartisan support for a health care reform bill.
“Bipartisanship is a two-way street,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declares in an interview airing Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union.
“But let me say this,” Pelosi continues, “The bill can be bipartisan, even though the votes might not be bipartisan, because they [Republicans] have made their imprint on this.”
Pelosi Confident on Health Vote
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 1, 2010 | SUSAN DAVIS
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 8:27:11 PM by SmartInsight
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday expressed confidence she will have enough votes to pass a health overhaul, but acknowledged it could come at a political cost to lawmakers who back the measure.
Pelosi says Obama has the votes to pass health reform
AFP Yahoo News ^ | Feb. 28, 2010 | AFP staff
Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:34:12 PM by KTM rider
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has the votes in the House of Representatives to force his flagship reform of US healthcare through without Republican support, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday.
Pelosi, in an interview with ABC television's "This Week" program, said Democrats would succeed in passing a bill despite concerted Republican efforts to derail Obama's top domestic priority ahead of crucial mid-term elections.
Morning round up.
Pelosi says she has the Votes to Pass Health Care Reform (at least in the Transcript)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461567/posts
Dems’ Health Strategy Doesn’t Add Up to a Win
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461545/posts
Buffet: Control Health Care Cost (Not pushing Obamacare)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461543/posts
Back to the ObamaCare Future (price controls in Massachusetts)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461533/posts
Opponents of Government Health Care are “Sub-human” —Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 37
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461514/posts
Democrat’s empty promises on Medicare reform
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/democrats_empty_promises_on_me.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2461510/posts
She lacks the votes: Health ‘reform’ still stalled
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461504/posts
Pelosi to Dems: Support health bill, even if it kills career
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461498/posts
Obama to Push for Allowing Drug Re-Importation (12/20/2009. Obama now against lower cost)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461497/posts
McCain bill will aim to split Medicare from reconciliation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461474/posts
Afternoon round up:
HOOSIERS AND HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461850/posts
Matthews: Obama Must Summon All His “Music and Magic” to Pass Health Care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2461847/posts
Obama Supporter Warren Buffett Would Scrap Health Care Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2461812/posts
The NEA and healthcare reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461811/posts
US Supplements Attacked In McCain Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2461808/posts
Does President Obama even Understand Insurance ?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461788/posts
New Obama Bill Wednesday: ‘Much Smaller’ Than House, Senate Versions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461783/posts
Pelosi: New Health Care Bill Will Be Ready in Days
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/01/pelosi-new-health-care-ready-days/
Buffet to Obama: Start Over on Health Care [instead of “dream[ing] up 2,000 pages of other things.”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461776/posts
If you take simvastatin to control cholesterol, watch out for infection says new report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2461761/posts
Video: Frank Luntz on U.S. Health-Care Requirements!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2461758/posts
Raise taxes, cut spending to balance U.S. budget: Hoyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2461752/posts
Tea Partiers on ‘Alert’ as Democrats Lay Groundwork for Health Care Passage
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461747/posts
Health Reform Would Now Fund Still More Abortions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461659/posts
Obama Care: Portability is missing in the Health Care Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2461647/posts
A ‘Life Or Death’ Tax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461639/posts
Pelosi to House Dems: Fall on Your Swords for Health-Care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461610/posts
Unions safeguard health benefits (in MA)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461590/posts
Runaway health costs are rocking municipal budgets (in MA and nationwide)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2461581/posts
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.