Posted on 08/30/2009 7:10:51 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Majority Rule on Health Care Reform (NYT Barf)
NYT ^ | August 29, 2009
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 2:59:06 AM by Tzimisce
The talk in Washington is that Senate Democrats are preparing to push through health care reforms using parliamentary procedures that will allow a simple majority to prevail in their chamber, as it does in the House, instead of the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster that Senate Republicans are sure to mount.
With the death of Senator Edward Kennedy, the Democrats do not have the votes just among their 57 members (and the two independents) to break a filibuster, and not all of these can be counted on to vote in lock step. If the Democrats want to enact health care reform this year, they appear to have little choice but to adopt a high-risk, go-it-alone, majority-rules strategy.
Personal information is up for grabs with Democrats' government health care
Washington Times ^ | Sunday, August 30, 2009 | Editorial
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:16:11 AM by JohnRLott
Privacy rights are under threat in the House's government health care plan. While plowing through the more than 1,000-page Democratic House bill, Declan McCullagh of CBS News uncovered provisions that would allow startling privacy intrusions. The innermost secrets of people's personal lives would be made available to thousands of government bureaucrats.
What the Pundits Are Missing About ObamaCare
Pajamas Media ^ | August 29 | Jennifer Rubin
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:39:27 PM by AJKauf
Obama simply miscalculated the American electorate’s willingness to throw out a health care system that insures over 80% of us, has led the world in technological innovation, and provides a good measure of autonomy for individuals to choose their doctors and treatment options. He had a terrible time selling ObamaCare because it was a terrible idea. It turns out Americans don’t want to replace an imperfect but very good health care system with a lowest-common denominator, government-run system that has given worse care and led to greater dissatisfaction than private insurance when tried in other countries.
In the end it comes down to the substance of ObamaCare. Liberal pundits would rather talk about tactics because it deflects attention from the failings of their long-cherished dream of nationalized health care. Conservative activists don’t mind talking about the incompetence of The One. But ideas really matter and awful ideas like ObamaCare are, it turns out, quite hard to enact into law once the public wakes up to what is afoot...
Footing Labor's Bill [$10 billion bailout for Big Labor buried in Healthcare Bill]
Pittsburgh Live ^ | August 29, 2009 | Pittsburgh Live Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:29:03 PM by Brilliant>
Washington, D.C., has too many people who wrongly think the supply of federal dollars -- taxpayer dollars -- is infinite... >
Buried in Capitol Hill's thousands of pages of health care reform proposals are provisions that would give $10 billion to union-backed retiree health plans. Many of those plans, such as the United Auto Workers', are woefully underfunded. >
Health Care Horror Story - READ THIS!
YouTube
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:59:20 PM by FrdmLvr
This is a video of a Dutch woman recalling what happened to her mother who lived in a nursing home in the Netherlands under their universal health care system.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pylorJ-AEJc&feature=autofb
Senior Groups Reject Health Care 'Scare Tactics'(union astroturfing:NPR)
NPR ^ | August 30, 2009 | Laura Leslie
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 8:19:33 PM by Drango
At high noon on one of the hottest days of the summer, a small group of senior citizens sweated it out in front of state GOP headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., asking the Republican Party to stop using what they called "scare tactics" to turn senior citizens against overhauling the health care system. It could be the start of a silver backlash against what some say is a misinformation campaign about health care reform.
The members of the Alliance for Retired Americans were angry about a recent column by national GOP Chairman Michael Steele, who said health care reform would lead to rationing for the elderly and deep cuts to Medicare. Protester Michael Gravinese says that's not true — and he thinks Steele is trying to frighten seniors like him
"It's pretty blatant and obvious what they're doing," Gravinese says. "And that's not for the good of the country. Let's have a reasoned, honest debate about health care."
Healthcare Reform's Biggest Fans: Young Adults (NOTE:18-29 year-olds went 66% for Obama!]
LATimes ^ | August 30, 2009
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:22:11 PM by Steelfish
Healthcare reform's biggest fans: young adults
They account for 30% of the uninsured population and are the group most supportive of Obama's plan -- though quietly. Experts differ on how an overhaul would affect them.
Health-Care Reform, One Stop at a Time (The "Mo Freebies Tour" coming to a town near you)
washington post ^ | 8/30/2009 | Dan Eggen
Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:58:46 PM by tobyhill
President Obama's supporters hope to recapture the energy of last year's triumphant election campaign in a bid to regain control of the health-care debate, planning more than 2,000 house parties, rallies and town hall meetings across the country over the next two weeks.
Have a REAL filibuster -— but if they try to use the “nuclear option” -—
Force them to READ every single thing that happens this year.
NO MORE “UNANIMOUS CONSENT” for anything!
In other words, we can force them to read every single word of every bill. We can force them to vote on everything they do.
“Without objection, so ordered” should never be heard again, in this Senate. Object, Object, Object, all the time!
Bring the Senate down to a crawl
If Democrats want to be in the unemployment line at the next election, try the 50+1 vote. It will kill their career. This bill has to be stopped......period.
Code Pink was in Congress during Bush Admin, and got thrown out by their actions. Wouldn’t the demrats have a closed door option for Healthcare vote??? Or must they have it on the Senate floor?
Yesterday I was told by a VA Dr. that a lot of veterans get upset as they think they have free gov’t treatment at the VA hospital for everything. But that the gov’t will not pay for cancer treatment unless the individual can show that the cancer was service related. Anyone experience this first hand?
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