Pelosi: If Senate Can’t Get 60 Votes, We’ll Go to ‘Simple Majority’ to Pass Health Care Bill (March)

CNSNews ^ | March 03, 2010 | Nicholas Ballasy

[tet68]

Yep, it’s not about reform, it’s about destruction.

[GailA]

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!

OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463709/posts

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added..

[Sunshine Sister]

Exactly right. You talk about open warfare in Washington, this could be the beginning. Even dems are not trusting of other dems. If the house dems vote for the bill and the senate dems didn't do reconciliation it would automatically condemn the house dems to be thrown out of office. It's a no win for the dems.

I just can't believe the senate dems would be so duplicitus and expect to survive themselves!

[Sun]

Good info. for a letter to the editor. Too many people don’t know what’s going on.

[Sun]

“RUSH: This whole reconciliation route, it’s a confusing term because the actual term is “BUDGET (emphasis mine) reconciliation,” and it is an exception to the 60-vote requirement in the Senate, which is a Senate rule, a long-standing Senate rule, and it is used only for items that have BUDGETARY (emphasis mine) consequences because the CONSTITUTION REQUIRES THAT (emphasis mine). So they made an exception to the 60-vote rule.”

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030310/content/01125116.guest.html

[freespirited]

I cant figure this out, doesnt the Constitution require any bill that raises revenue to originate in the House?

[freespirited]

I found it, Article I, Section 7:

All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.

[GailA]

That’s because the LSM local news doesn’t report it, and the LSM is hopelessly on the side of the commies. And to think our Founders thought the press would remain free.

[AmericanInTokyo]

"SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS IN MARCH: WE SHOVE IT UP YOUR AS*ES IN NOVEMBER"

That is the ONLY thing I would write on ANY fax to ANY Democrat lawmaker and RINOs these days.

They will know EXACTLY what you are talking about.

Publish their home addresses in the district, for lawn-sit ins if necessary. I mean, wneed to consider now going totally Birmingham Walgreens Counter Service 1964 on this.

[socialismisinsidious]

LOL. Well said.

[Arrowhead1952]

I wish some (R) congress critter would tell pig lousy, dingy hairy and zero that if they use a simple majority to pass this, the Republicans win the house and senate in Nov., they will use the simple majority to impeach zero and try every (d) for treason, with death sentences carried out immediately.