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Only a day after Senate Democrats voted to move into a historic debate on overhauling the nation's healthcare system, key centrists made it clearthat the party is still a long way from delivering on its promise to provide near-universal insurance coverage and contain medical costs. Faced with the prospect of Republican filibusters, Democratic leaders must deliver the same kind of total unity they managed to achieve in Saturday's vote to begin debate: Every Democratic senator, plus two independents who caucus with them, supported the key procedural motion. But several of those senators spoke out today to say that they will...

This is a prime example of the government interjecting into the private health care decisions of U.S. citizens. It is also a prelude to the notorious "death panels" which Sarah Palin exposed this past summer. Government run health care will eventually lead to exactly what Palin warned us about.

This sentence hit me like a ton of bricks, just because of the wording: Women of any age should not be taught to do breast self-exams, but BSE is not forbidden. Are you kidding me? “BSE” stands for breast self examination. And this government death panel is telling women they shouldn’t learn how to do them, but are not “forbidden” from learning how and doing them. How generous of them.

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on ObamaCare Saturday, medical professionals across the country will speak out against the government's takeover of health care. The Million Med March is taking place in state capitols and major cities across the U.S. this weekend. The events are being organized by a group called Doctors U.N.I.T.E.

Reform: Only a Bernie Madoff could believe the Senate's health care bill will extend coverage to 31 million Americans while cutting deficits by $127 billion over 10 years. It would be the first profitable entitlement. But that's what Majority Leader Harry Reid, citing Congressional Budget Office estimates, tells us the 2,074-page bill — said to cost only $849 billion over a decade — would do. Like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he seems to be following Vice President Joe Biden's admonition at an AARP town hall meeting that "we've got to spend money to keep from going bankrupt." We suspect Reid's...

A popular Iowa State Senator and and a former Iowa State University wrestling coach could pose significant challenges to Democrat Leonard Boswell's Third District Congressional seat.

Ever heard of "Doctors Without Pay?" Believe it or not, the liberal democrat politicians in the House and the Senate have forgotten about paying doctors in their health care takeover plans. By forgetting about paying doctors, these politicized health plans pretend to cost slightly less than a trillion dollars. And then you remember they've forgotten to pay the doctors!!! Do they really expect doctors to work for nothing? I've heard of lawyers doing an occasional pro bono case, and doctors might do the same on occasion. But, can you imagine case after case after case without pay? That isn't likely...

Health Care: A government task force has decided that women need fewer mammograms and later in life. Shouldn't that be between patient and physician? We have seen the future of health care, and it doesn't work. We have warned repeatedly that the net results of health care bills before Congress will be higher demand, fewer doctors, more cost control, all leading to rationing. New recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding breast cancer and the necessity for early and frequent mammograms do not convince us otherwise. Just six months ago, the panel, which works under the...

As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade. Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by rival factions struggling to enact or defeat President Barack Obama's agenda. The rhetoric on both sides is exaggerated and often deceptive. Those of us for whom the central issue is health—not politics—have been left in the lurch. And as controversy heads toward a conclusion in Washington, it appears that the people who favor the legislation are engaged in collective denial. Our health-care system suffers from...

Well, it looks like we're not the only ones who can't stand the House health "reform" bill. The DUmmies hate PelosiCare too! Of course their reasons may not line up with ours, but still, it shows that NOBODY really likes what the Dems are doing, and that's a good thing. BTW, before we get into this thread, did you see the other day where Nurse Nancy claims to have read all 1,900 pages of the bill PLUS 1,300 pages of additional reports? "I've read 3,200 pages," she said. RI-I-IGHT! Nancy, I think we'll have to call you "Pelossio" for...

Arguing that the political winds are shifting away from the support necessary for an overhaul, one Wall Street analyst is now predicting Congress will not pass any significant health care legislation anytime soon. In a report to investors on Tuesday, Richard Evans, an analyst with Sector & Sovereign in New York, writes, “We no longer expect Congress to pass impactful health reform legislation this year, or even in this political cycle.” Mr. Evans cites several factors that he believes makes passage less and less likely, including the increasing public opposition to the overhaul, as well as the emergence of politically...

http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com/ What use is history if we refuse to learn from it? If we are doomed to repeat the past mistakes of civilizations before us, why bother to teach and study history at all? But, if you believe as I do that our Founders took great pains to construct a government unlike any before them, inspired by the Enlightenment thinkers and determined to learn from the mistakes of failed governments, then you must ask the question as I have, what if our current leadership refuses to learn from history? This weekend I pondered two diametrically opposed health care views I...

I support the kind of health care reform that will lower costs and increase accessibility to quality, affordable care. Unfortunately, what Speaker Pelosi rammed through the House today does nothing to curb rising costs. Instead, her bill seizes control of the health care industry and puts it in the hands of the federal government, introduces job killing taxes on individuals and small businesses, and accelerates deficit spending and the accumulation of national debt. Late Saturday night, I voted against Speaker Pelosi’s massive federal takeover of health care because I do not believe it is the right prescription for Oklahomans. After...

Jailing the uninsuredCould Americans who refuse to buy health insurance actually be imprisoned? Thursday, November 12, 2009 The House health reform bill would require all Americans who can afford insurance to buy it, raising a thorny question: What happens to those who opt out, then suddenly get sick, and stick the rest of Americans with their medical bills? President Obama supports a “penalty…high enough that people don't game the system." How high exactly? Republicans point out that the House bill specifies “a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” Could Americans really go to jail...

If Madame Pelosi really wants to make it illegal to not carry health insurance, what would be wrong with swamping one of the DC police stations at the next major rally? Have about 20 thousand people show up at the PD, and all turn ourselves in. What do you think the complicit progressive media would make of that!

One of the most-discussed issues in the health care reform debate is whether to include a government-run, "public option" health plan. President Obama says a government plan is necessary to "keep insurance companies honest," but opponents -- and even some proponents of the public option -- say that a public option will reduce competition and choice and become a step on the road to a single-payer health care system.But both sides seem to be ignoring a much larger issue: Regardless of whether a public option is included, the reforms under consideration in Congress would impose such rigid control on private...

Clearly, the Nancy was very happy with her early victory in the health care debate, but I think her joy appears to have been a little overabundant. Two questions coming from this photo (photo credit: MSNBC): 1. Why wasn't the old hag wearing her diapers? 2. Don't we think a stain placed more in the rear would be more fitting a lady? Photo, after the jump.

Last Saturday night – at about 11:15 pm Eastern Standard Time – hyperliberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) rammed her healthcare reform bill through with the smallest of margins. Pelosi needed 218 to get the bill passed, and she got all of 220, opponents registering 215.  In short, three votes pushed the Pelosicare through to the point where the Senate can now consider it or some other version of it. Where did those 220 votes come from?  Too many came from the so-called “Blue Dog Coalition” in Congress, a group of 52 Democratic representatives that claim to hold in high...

http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com/ I am no historian. But, my read of the Revolutionary War goes something like this: The Red Coats outnumbered, out-gunned and out-generaled Washington's Continental Army at every turn. In the beginning. But Washington had one advantage. He taught himself how to think like the enemy, when to retreat, wait. And, finally strike. So far the early health care battles go to the enemy. Despite lack of public support, Nancy Pelosi twisted arms to make deals under cover of darkness and eked out a slim majority for passage of Nancycare. Yet, in the latest Rasmussen poll conducted the day following...

owa 5th District Congressman Steve King is an extremely rare politician. He tells you exactly what he thinks and how he feels, consequences be damned. Today, King made it very clear how he feels about the Obama administration.

......So, I am wondering how experts in the field of health care have views that differ so significantly from the bill in congress. My conclusion is this is not a bill about health care. This is a bill about controlling 16% of the economy. It is interesting to note that the legislative branch was Republican dominated from 1861-1933. Under the new Deal, and passage of Social Security (amongst other programs), Democrats laid ground work that gave them legislative power, reinforced with medicare and welfare under LBJ, through 1981. Through a strong believe in the free market and freedom, Reagan laid...

ABC's thrilling and politically potent new sci-fi series "V," whose second episode airs tonight at 8 on ABC, pits the paranoids against the Obamanoids -- and it's the paranoids who see the truth. Through the honeyed tones of the alien leader Anna (Morena Baccarin), who wins over Earth in less time than it took President Obama to impress Planet Nobel, ABC promises to bring us an hour of devastating, witty and keenly on-point Obama satire every week in a series fuelled by the audacity of nope. Who cares what the network news divisions are up to when their entertainment chiefs...

Former president Bill Clinton planned a rare visit to the US Senate Tuesday to unite Democrats divided on President Barack Obama's push for a sweeping overhaul of US health care. Fifteen years after his own dramatic push to remake the US system went down in flames after a strong start, Clinton was to address Democrats behind closed doors at their weekly policy luncheon to give Obama's plans a shot in the arm. The former president "is going to help energize our caucus to accomplish the three goals" of bringing health care costs down and covering every American without breaking the...

Failure to buy health insurance in the just-passed health care bill could get you five years in jail with a $250,000 fine. How can violating a law that's unconstitutional be a felony, asks Investor's Business Daily (IBD)? The passage last Saturday night of the House health care measure by a fragile 220-215 margin may well prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. In polls, townhall meetings and tea parties, Americans have shown they don't want a "reform" that costs a staggering $1.2 trillion yet fails to meet the left's desire of insuring all the uninsured. And they certainly don't want a...

Now is the time to fight even harder and smarter. Let’s turn the tables and ask the “courageous” Blue Dog , No” voters to pledge to repeal Pelosicare. Nobody honestly “believes” a whole pound of Blue Dog Democrats voted “No” out of concern for our wishes or best interest. They voted “No” only with permission to vote “No.” None of them would have voted “No” as the deciding vote. Some people would have us give up claiming we won’t be able to defeat them next year based on “His courageous vote AGAINST his own party.” Others say “Once this is...

Health Care Reform: Failure to buy health insurance in the just-passed health care bill could get you five years in jail with a $250,000 fine. How can violating a law that's unconstitutional be a felony? The passage last Saturday night of the House health care measure by a fragile 220-215 margin may well prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. In polls, townhall meetings and tea parties, Americans have shown they don't want a "reform" that costs a staggering $1.2 trillion yet fails to meet the left's desire of insuring all the uninsured. And they certainly don't want a bill that...

Speaker Pelosi may have won a battle but she will lose the war. And voters will take their revenge at the ballot box in 2010. Speaker Pelsosi is the General Custer of our time. She is leading her troops to slaughter at the polls in 2010. The Speaker is vastly outnumbered by a majority of Americans do not want the health care reforms dictated by House Bill passed Saturday evening. According to a poll by Rasmussen Reports, 52% of Americans are opposed to the Democrats' plans for health care reforms. A majority of Americans believe that the legislation will increase...

Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.), who voted against the Pelosi health-care reform bill that was approved by the House yesterday, said he did so because it raises taxes and will lead to a single-payer health care system in the United States. The bill—the “Affordable Health Care for America Act”—passed the House late on Saturday evening. The final vote was 220 to 215. Thirty-nine House Democrats voted against the proposal and only one Republican, freshman Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana, voted for it. In town hall meetings in August, Boren told constituents he would not support a health care bill that raised...

There are two ways to view this video of a 2005 floor speech by then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, condemning Republican leaders for not allowing members three days to read "a bill of thousands of pages" before voting on it. The video is posted on Breitbart TV and is well worth watching in the aftermath of Speaker Pelosi's legislative blitzkreig of the past week to gain passage of her version of Obamacare at all costs. It was done with not even a token nod in the direction of allowing the sort of legislative transparency she promised voters during the...

"The first place on earth where man matters more than the state." http://www.wiseandfrugalgovernment.blogspot.com Michael Shaara, author of The Killer Angels, writes of America: "This was the first place on earth where man mattered more than the state." Someone needs to remind Ms. Pelosi of this fact. Also a gentle reminder, perhaps, that this is still the Land of the Free. She can keep her 1990 page, $1 Trillion plus power grab disguised as health care reform. And would someone tell her to stop wagging her finger at us? Please? Let's start with the first Big Lie. During his health care...

...their “death panels” are determining who is allowed to marry, and who is not. Who is allowed to have children, and who is not. Hitler and Mengele would be proud. So would Chairman Mao. “Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, haven’t broken any law. But they are on the run from the authorities, and from their home..."

WASHINGTON -- The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people." The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill...

The House just passed Obamacare by a vote of 220-215. This is a pyrrhic victory at best for Democrats. Consider: 1. Republicans will be able to use this as a campaign issue against many vulnerable Democrats from the classes of 2006 and 2008. 2. The Obamacare debate is going to drag on for months. The pressure is now on embattled Senate Democrats to pass their bill, and then reconcile that with the House, and then pass that bill in both chambers… Obamacare will dominate the debate at least into January, sapping Democrats’ energy, and giving Republicans ammunition – money and...

The House passage of healthcare legislation means different things to different folks. For President Barack Obama it was a “courageous vote” by members of Congress. Obama went to Capitol Hill Saturday to personally press for passage. Today he was full of praise. “Given the heated and often misleading rhetoric surrounding this legislation, I know that this was a courageous vote for many members of Congress,” Obama said in the Rose Garden. For Sarah Palin the healthcare bill was a mess. “We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America...

"The only thing growing faster than the federal debt is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama." -- Tim Pawlenty "They should be focused like a laser on jobs, not acting like a manure spreader in a windstorm." -- Pawlenty, referring to the Democrats in Congress

Nancy Pelosi defied policy logic and public opinion late Saturday night, ramming through the House a nearly 2,000-page health-care leviathan that counts as the biggest expansion of the federal government since the New Deal. ... The bill is instead a breathtaking display of illiberal ambition, intended to make the middle class more dependent on government through the umbilical cord of "universal health care." It creates a vast new entitlement, financed by European levels of taxation ... The 20% corner of Medicare open to private competition is slashed, while fiscally strapped states are saddled with new Medicaid burdens. The insurance industry...

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Sarah Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents Friday night with a a stark warning that the same philosophy that allows abortion rights could soon be invoked to allow the government to cut off health care for the elderly or children with special needs. Speaking to a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee asserted that if policy-makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable, then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to other persons.” “What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have...

"We need to rise up and stand against this legislation until it is mortally wounded with a stake driven through its liberal heart."

As freedom loving Americans from around Iowa headed to Des Moines this weekend, President Barack Obama was calling these same U.S. taxpayers "extremists", during an effort to rally the Democrats to pass PelosiCare. Iowa Congressmen Steve King and Tom Latham were on the front line on Capitol Hill, trying to thwart the attempted takeover of our healthcare industry.

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi likened the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later. "It provides coverage for 96 percent of Americans. It offers everyone, regardless of...

The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reported that the House version of the healthcare bill specifies that those who don’t buy health insurance and do not pay the fine of about 2.5 percent of their income for failing to do so can face a penalty of up to five years in prison! The bill describes the penalties as follows: • Section 7203 — misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year. • Section 7201 — felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000...

ursuit of Happiness. This Blog Linked From Here My Blog List Conservative Site Links This Blog Linked From Here My Blog List Conservative Site Links One Nation Under God One Nation Under God Sunday, November 8, 2009 Texas Rep Lloyd Dogget: Tea Party Movement Is A Weak Brew Of The Healh Care Insurance Companies Addressing the Senate Floor last night in the battle over Health Care Reform and The Republican's Health Care Plan, Texas Senator, Lloyd Dogget called The Tea Party Movement "A weak brew manufactured by the health insurance companies. Yes, that's right. Once again the Democrats attacked millions...

It was always clear that the real health-care battle would be in the Senate. But what would have been shocking eight months ago is to hear that it would take until November for the Democrats to pass a bill even in the House. It would have been even more shocking to have heard that, even after a full-court-press by the White House, the bill would pass by only five votes — meaning that if just three of the 435 members had changed their minds, it would have changed the bill's fate. And it would have been shocking to have heard...

The One Republican Vote For Socialized Medicine Was Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana One Republican voted for Pelosicare: GOP Rep. Anh (Joseph) Cao of Louisiana. And from the time he was elected, Cao has backed the S-CHIP expansion, the $108 billion IMF bailout, and the omni-waste spending bill. And he voted to rebuke GOP Rep. Joe Wilson for calling out President Obama on his health care lies. His remarks: "Louisiana Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao on Sunday morning released a statement after he voted as the only Republican in favor of the Democratic health care reform bill.

Well, we got the names. Now there’s no secret who was willing to step out for Pelosicare. I picked out 47 Democrats from the “yes” column that could end up in serious trouble next year. So let’s name some names, donate to their opponents, and turn them out! Michael Arcuri – Nearly got beat by Hanna in 08. Melissa Bean – Knocked off Phil Crane in 04, but still sits in a historically Republican district. Marion Berry – Already targeted by the NRCC, and doesn’t seem to realize that AR wasn’t for O. Tim Bishop – Whined about the townhall...

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HOUSE PASSES HEALTHCARE REFORM - TO DESTROY YOU WILL BE NO LOSS.

I think the cover of Time Magazine should headline with “We are all Communists, Now”. I watched as the House of Representative voted along party lines to pass the monstrous HR 3962, the 1,990 page behemoth, that places us firmly on the same path as Nazi Germany during Hitler’s restoration. You see, elections have consequences, and this is the consequence of Socialist Democrats who want to be in every aspect of your lives. Not one Democrat who voted for this abomination

Here is the results for the House vote on Pelosi Care Yay: 220 Ney:215 Present:0 NV:0 Democrat Yea: 219 Repubs Yea: 1 Democrat Nea: 39 Republicans Nea: 176 Democrats win America Loses!