Posted on 03/08/2010 4:22:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
ABC News: Neither [President Barack Obama or HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius] mentioned that the Senate health reform bill, which is the basis for Democrats' last best chance at comprehensive reform, would give the insurance companies millions of new customers required by law to buy health insurance.
It would also require insurers to cover everyone, regardless of age, gender or pre-existing condition.
To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years.
That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.tv ...
A little thing called the Constitution and his flagrant disregard for the document.
Well, pontificate; lets hear it.
Walpin ring a bell?
Forget it.
Sorry, had to put the kiddo to bed. From benshapiro.com...
Which is why he’s now writing the health care bill. Everyone seems to have overlooked one little problem in the details of his new legislation, which raise taxes in several places: in nationalizing one-sxith of the US economy, he is now originating legislation, a practice prohibited by the Constitution. Here’s what the Constitution says in Article I, Section 7:
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
How exactly does this translate into President Obama stating this today on the WhiteHouse.gov website?
Over the past year the House and the Senate have been working on an effort to provide health insurance reform that lowers costs, guarantees choices, and enhances quality health care for all Americans. Building on that year-long effort, the President has now put forth a proposal that incorporates the work the House and the Senate have done and adds additional ideas from Republican members of Congress.
Never mind the lies here (it is a lie that he has incorporated “additional ideas from Republican members of Congress”). Focus instead on the massive arrogance it takes to grab two separate bills and unify them under the executive rubric. This is not what the framers intended. But of course, Obama doesn’t give a damn about that. His is an imperial presidency, pure and simple. And he wants us to be his subjects.
C’mon. See my #45. Are you so dismissive with your petulant “forget it”?
Bleah.
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