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2012 Reasons Not To Pass Health Care
IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 2/2/2010 | Ed Carson

Posted on 02/02/2010 10:46:11 AM PST by Slyscribe

Many liberal pundits say health care has hurt Democrats in the polls, so lawmakers might as well pass a bill. But ramming it through Congress could enrage already-angry voters. And it would keep lawmakers’ focus off the economy, which is voters’ top issue.

Further, passing a health bill could extend Democrats’ electoral pain. Supporters say voters would eventually embrace ObamaCare, just as they came to love Social Security and Medicare.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; democrats; healthcare; obamacare; senate
Do you Sen. Ben Nelson wants to talk about health care for the next two years?
1 posted on 02/02/2010 10:46:14 AM PST by Slyscribe
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To: Slyscribe
Sure... voters will be thrilled with all the new taxes the Dems would levy on them. They must have a political death wish.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

2 posted on 02/02/2010 10:49:48 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Slyscribe

As Californians are fighting against federal socialist healthcare, Our senate snuck in and voted for single payer healthcare.

SEIU thugs,California teachers and CNA backed it’s passing. Saying federal HC is idled so talk has to be started for California. Basically we all know the unions need the money Obama promised them to make their pensions solvent. We also know Wade Rathke’s plan to overwhelm the government with entitlements and then people will accept socialism.

Schwarzenneger said state workers entitlements were the problem in California. CalPers is barely solvent. You would think they would realize unions are the problem, not the answer. Yet the battle continues.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation’s most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Supporters said it is time for state legislatures to take up the debate as the Obama Administration’s national health care proposal falters in Congress.

“If it’s not to be done at the national level, let us take the lead,” said state Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego.

The move in California comes after Massachusetts voters changed the calculus in Congress by electing a Republican to the Senate who opposes the pending plan.

Democrats are the majority in both houses of the California Legislature. The 40-member state Senate passed the single-payer plan on a 22-14 vote, sending it to the Assembly. One Democrat voted against the measure.

Schwarzenegger promised to veto the proposal, as he has two similar plans that previously reached his desk. Spokeswoman Rachel Arrezola cited the state’s massive budget cuts and looming $20 billion deficit in arguing the state cannot afford to shift to a single-payer health care system.

“Any elected official who thinks it’s a good idea to strap the state with tens of billions of dollars from a government-run health care system is clearly not in touch with what voters need and deserve,” Arrezola said.

The proposal by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, authorizes $1 million to establish a commission that would decide how to pay for the system. The funding plan would ultimately have to be approved by voters.

Leno argued the state-run plan would replace the $200 billion Californians already pay for their health care while eliminating insurance companies’ share. He previously said the system could use existing state and federal money and a payroll tax, coupled with increased efficiencies from a government-run system.

“We are spending $200 billion currently,” Leno said. “It is the same $200 billion used in a more efficient, cost-effective fashion.”

Republicans derided the timing of the vote, saying Democrats are ignoring the lesson in Massachusetts at their political peril.

“This plan is to the left and radical of what couldn’t get out of Washington,” said Sen. George Runner, R-Lancaster.

Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Republicans refused to support even a $14.7 billion health care reform bill that Schwarzenegger, a Republican, negotiated with Democratic leaders two years ago.

“Not a single Republican vote—so what are you for?” asked Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento who usually strikes a conciliatory bipartisan tone. “The demagoguery needs to be answered and addressed.”

Schwarzenegger’s proposal actually was undone by Democrat Don Perata, Steinberg’s predecessor in the Senate, when he ordered a financial review that found the plan would be billions of dollars out of balance within a few years.

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On the Net:

Read SB810 at http://www.sen.ca.gov


3 posted on 02/02/2010 11:15:00 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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"...asked Steinberg, a Democrat from Sacramento who usually strikes a conciliatory bipartisan tone.

This statement is absolutely false. Steinberg is a rats rat.

SZ

4 posted on 02/02/2010 11:19:33 AM PST by SZonian (I see people who claim they are victims of "hatred" and say we should be more "productive".)
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