Posted on 09/11/2009 2:00:51 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious
Following Speech, Support for Health Care Reform Up to 46% (only 2 point bump!!)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 9/11/2009
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 10:06:13 AM by markomalley
President Obama’s speech to Congress Wednesday night has provided at least a short-term boost in support for the health care reform plan that he and congressional Democrats have proposed. But the bounce is partisan in nature, with the increase in support coming entirely from those in the president’s own party.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national tracking survey shows that 46% favor the plan and 51% are opposed. The survey was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The previous two-day sample, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday nights, found that 44% favored the plan while 53% were opposed.
But not much truth to health talk
NY Post ^ | 10 September 2009 | RICH LOWRY
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 1:18:36 AM by Bob017
President Obama wants to rewrite the calendar.
As far as he's concerned, the year has progressed from June to July to September. August is to be forever erased from our minds and our hearts.
His speech to a joint session of Congress was delivered as if the late unpleasantness of last month never happened, or as if it were all simply "bickering" and "games" on the otherwise smooth, consensual path to reordering one-sixth of the nation's economy in one fell swoop.
"Now is the season for action," Obama intoned.
In other words, please don't bother me with your inconvenient Congressional Budget Office reports, with your tiresome concerns about ballooning government in an era of exploding debt, with your facts -- yes, the House bill would end up covering abortion -- that I prefer to deny.
Is there an Amnesty provision in the health care bill?
CRS ^ | August 25, 2009 | Congressional Research Service
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 7:27:37 AM by Pete
Is there an amnesty provision in the health care bill. Read this from the Congressional Research Service. http://tinyurl.com/lxjlrv
For federal tax purposes, alien individuals are classified as resident or nonresident aliens. In general, an individual is a nonresident alien unless he or she meets the qualifications under a residency test. Thus, legal permanent residents, and noncitizens and unauthorized aliens who qualify as resident aliens (i.e., meet the substantial presence test), would be required under H.R. 3200 to have health insurance.
Once they meet the "substantial presence test" and become resident aliens, does that make them "lawful" and "authorized". If so, then what of this?
In 2013, under H.R. 3200, some individuals would be eligible for premium credits (i.e., subsidies based on income) toward their required purchase of health insurance. To be eligible for the premium credits under H.R. 3200, individuals must be lawfully present in a state in the United States, excluding most nonimmigrants (i.e., those in the United States for a specific purpose and a specific period of time). The exceptions for nonimmigrants who could obtain premium credits under H.R. 3200 would be trafficking victims, crime victims, fiancées of U.S. citizens, and those who have had applications for legal permanent residence (LPR) status pending for three years. It is expected that almost all aliens in these excepted nonimmigrant categories will become LPRs (i.e., immigrants) and remain in the United States permanently. Furthermore, unauthorized aliens would be barred from receiving the premium credit.
It sounds to me that an illegal alien who meets a substantial presence test becomes a resident alien and, so, would be authorized. In that case, they would be eligible for the premium subsidy. Either way, illegals would able to purchase a health insurance plan in the coop. See this:
H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens participating in the ExchangeŠwhether the noncitizens are legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently.
Pawlenty might invoke the 10th Amendment to stop health care reform
Minnesota INdependent ^ | 9-10-09 | David Weigel
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 8:36:38 AM by WOBBLY BOB
On a Thursday night Republican Governors Association conference call with conservative activists, moderated by Erick Erickson of RedState, Gov. Tim Pawlenty broached the possibility of “asserting the 10th Amendment” to keep Minnesota from fully participating in a health care plan passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. The 10th Amendment reads:
Obama sets stage for using budget maneuver to pass health reform
hehill.com ^ | September 11, 2009 | Sam Youngman
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:05:15 AM by NoObamaFightForConservatives
President Barack Obama this week has been laying the foundation for Senate Democrats to use a controversial budget maneuver to pass healthcare reform.
By offering Republicans olive branches during his address to Congress on Wednesday, Obama has set up a win-win situation. If GOP lawmakers embrace compromise, a healthcare bill would pass Congress easily. But the more likely scenario is that Republicans will continue to oppose Obama’s plan, and the president later this fall will be able to note he tried to strike a deal with the GOP but could not.
That will set up a Democratic argument that Senate leaders have been forced to use a partisan budget tool known as reconciliation to pass a health bill through the Senate by a simple majority, instead of 60 votes. Under the budget plan they passed earlier this year, Democrats could invoke the reconciliation process on Oct. 15.
Hard Truths about End-of-Life Care: When the government provides care, it must deny care
National Review ^ | September 11, 2009 | Jagadeesh Gokhale and Angela Erickson
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:40:23 AM by reaganaut1
... Will seniors ever acquiesce to what Sarah Palin referred to as “death panels”? As our Cato colleague Will Wilkinson points out, that pejorative term is an inappropriate description of a necessary mechanism.
Obama’s Trouble with Numbers (The funniest parts about Obama’s health care speech to congress)
National Review ^ | 9/11/2009 | Mona Charen
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:52:39 AM by SeekAndFind
Let’s stipulate that it was wrong of Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) to shout “You lie” during President Obama’s health-care speech. It was a violation of courtesy and etiquette. Wilson apologized — which is more than the Democrats who booed President Bush’s State of the Union address in 2005 ever did.
But I confess that watching at home, similar exclamations were heard. Some seemed to have burst, irrepressible, from my own lips.
There was, for starters, this misleading assertion: “If you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have.” Ah, shades of Clintonesque lawyerly evasion. No, it won’t “require” you to change, but if the tax treatment changes (and Obama proposes, among other things, to tax high-end plans) and the public option is available, employers may choose to change their offerings and employees will then no longer get to keep their current insurance.
Who are the uninsured, 2009 edition
Hot Air ^ | SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 10:04:42 AM by RobinMasters
The Census Bureau released its annual income, poverty, and health insurance survey (2008) yesterday, giving both sides new numbers to use in the health-care debate. ObamaCare advocates can claim that the number of uninsured rose in the year, which it did, from 45.6 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. Opponents of the administration’s efforts can point to the increased numbers of Americans covered by insurance (255.1 million, up from 253.7 million in 2007) and the wider coverage of existing government programs — which increased by almost 5 million to 87.4 million people in 2008.
The focus will fall on the breakdown of the uninsured. What comprised the 46,340,000 uninsured, according to the Census Bureau?
Health Care Bill Includes CLASS provisions to take over Long Term Care Insurance
The Examiner ^ | 09/11/09 | J Brown
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 10:23:15 AM by Jabrown
In 2007, Senator Ted Kennedy introduced the Community Living Assistance Services and Support Act (CLASS) into the Senate. The proposed bill was designed to provide Long Term Care related coverage to the American people. The plan would provide coverage for nursing home, assisted living and home health care services not provided by Medicare, but expanded coverage beyond the senior population. The plan called for compulsory contributions via payroll for all Americans age 18 and over and services would be provided after 5 years of enrollment. The bill died almost as fast as it was introduced. Republicans immediately opposed the bill which would was technically a form of nationalized, compulsory-based health care and blue-dog Democrats fearful of the costs, auto-enroll provisions, lack of benefits and devastating affect on the long-term care industry helped to prevent the legislation from moving forward.
Obama's Empty Promise, GOP Introduced 35 Different Health Care Proposals That POTUS Won't Discuss
Republican Leadership/Fox News/The Lid ^ | 9/11/09 | The Lid
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 10:29:01 AM by Shellybenoit
According to the Democrats, the opposition Republican party only knows how to say no. In fact one of the President's constant refrains is "where is their plan?" He also promises to meet with anyone to listen anybody who has other legitimate ideas regarding fixing the US heath care system, but that is an empty promise. Since January of this year, the Republicans have introduced 35 different health care proposals, sadly President Obama is not serious about wanting to listen to alternative proposals.
ObamaCare is too good to be true
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/11/9 | Debra J. Saunders
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 10:40:51 AM by SmithL
Toward the end of his speech on health care Wednesday night, President Obama said that he had been thinking a lot about the phrase, "the character of our country."
Too bad the president's speech had all the character of a free lunch.
Obama argued for the moral imperative of providing quality health care for all Americans - but it's not such a moral imperative that most people should have to pay for it.
In fact, he promised a load of goodies, starting with access to health care for America's 47 million-plus uninsured. House Bill 3200 would provide subsidies for families of four making up to $88,000. It also mandates that insurers would have to cover not only individuals with pre-existing conditions, but also would have to end co-payments for routine checkups and preventive care.
Medicare Is No Model for Health Reform (Excellent Read!)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 09/11/09 | GRACE-MARIE TURNER AND JOSEPH R. ANTOS
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 12:19:26 PM by MissesBush
Democratic leaders at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue continue to battle over whether a new government-run health plan, modeled after the popular Medicare program for seniors, must be included in health-reform legislation.
President Barack Obama told a New Hampshire town-hall meeting last month that "if we're able to get something right like Medicare, then there should be a little more confidence that maybe the government can have a role." Did the government really get Medicare right? Here are the top 10 reasons this program should not be a model for reform, and why it would be dangerous for the federal government to be put in charge of any more of our health sector:
CBS poll: Support for ObamaCare up 12 points since last week (Barf alert!)
hotair.com ^ | 9-11-09
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 1:45:04 PM by Justaham
Enjoy it while it lasts, champ, because no one — including liberal Democrats — thinks it will. Last week it was 40/47, today it’s 52/38 with 85 percent of Dems approving of how he’s handled health care. And yet, even in an otherwise upbeat poll, only 22 percent think O-Care will end up helping them. 27 percent think it’ll do more harm than good and 42 percent think it’ll have no effect. Such is the state of excitement about solving the great “crisis” of our time. CBS sampled 648 adults randomly. What do you get when you sample likely voters, as Rasmussen does? Something … different:
(Gang of Six) Health care bill coming soon (as early as Tuesday)
Politico ^ | September 11, 2009 | CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 2:18:44 PM by maggief
The Senate Finance Committee will release a health care reform bill as early as Tuesday, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Friday.
The bipartisan Gang of Six, which has been meeting for months, could gather for the last time Monday as Baucus said he aims to wrap up the negotiations. The senators could indicate at that point whether they will sign onto the bill, Baucus said.
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