SOLD: Sen. Nelson's Bribe (Posted for Documentation)

SOLD: Sen. Nelson’s Bribe

by Publius

We’ll be blunt.

The ‘health care reform’ legislation under consideration in the Senate is the most corrupt piece of legislation in our nation’s history. Yes, we understand that is a strong statement and there have been other abominations throughout our nation’s life. But never before did corrupt legislation threaten to radically and forever change the live’s of every American.

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Exhibit A is the outright bribe extracted by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Corn Huckster State) from Sen. Harry Reid. As a result of Nelson’s performance in his role of Hamlet in the health care deliberations, we will have two health care systems in this country; one for Nebraska and one for the other 49 states.

In its quixotic attempt to ensure everyone has health insurance, the Reid legislation greatly expands Medicaid eligibility. Because Medicaid is a program whose costs are split between the federal and state governments, this expansion in eligibility raise costs dramatically for states. States will be forced to either raise taxes or cut other services to accommodate the forced increase in Medicaid spending.

Unless that state is Nebraska.

Below is the text for Nelson’s bribe. Under this language the federal government will forever cover the costs of Medicaid expansion in Nebraska. Taxpayers in every other state will forever be responsible for the expanded Medicaid program in Nebraska.

Outrageous doesn’t do justice to describe this situation. Sen. Nelson also secured an exemption from a new insurance tax for non-profit companies in his state. Mutual of Omaha and Nebraska’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield won’t have to pay a tax other companies will be required to pay.

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But if it was his vote that was preventing this bill from proceeding then simply voting no would protect his state from Medicaid expansion under the bill since, without his vote, the bill wouldn't have proceeded.

Leftists don't think like that.

Every dem that scams the people and the republicans with stuff like this ends up voting for whatever bill they are pretending to be against.

The only time they come through is when the vote is assured to go the leftist's way, then they will vote against it just to get creds to fool "us" again.

Us is in quotes because I've seen this scam before and knew the outcome.

Scrape a Blue Dog dem and underneath there will be a yellow stripe.

Sen. Ben Nelson announces support for health-care bill

By Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 19, 2009; 10:55 AM

Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the final Democratic holdout on health care, announced to his caucus Saturday morning that he would support the Senate reform bill, clearing the way for final passage by Christmas.

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The overall cost of the package was not immediately available, but aides said it would be more than covered by cutting future Medicare spending and raising taxes in the health sector, including a 40 percent excise on the most expensive insurance policies. The package would reduce budget deficits by $130 billion by 2019, aides said, and by as much as $650 billion in the decade thereafter.

Not to mention the enormous tax on ALL medical equipment.

And the tax on small business, and individuals that choose to not buy health care.

Of course if they don't pay the opt-out tax, they can be sent to jail by the IRS.

Then they will get health care in jail. That'll teach them!

The people of Nebraska KNOW what he did, this is very highly visible. It’s not about them, it’s about politics. They elected a Democrat and in the end, he voted with his Party. The difference between Ben Nelson and say, Chuckie Schumer, is Nelson got something for his vote.

I’m fron Nebraska originally and when I ask people in good conservative Red states like Nebraska and Iowa why in hell they elect so-called “Conservative Democrats” like Nelson, the answer always comes down to farm subsidies. I suppose if I were a self-employed farmer with millions of dollars at risk and 100 years of family farming heritage I might be able to understand their thinking better. This is a generalization of course, and I suspect Ben Nelson may just choose to retire rather than run again, so threats of voting him out of office won’t be effective.

He voted his party line, and that’s what Democrats do.

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