Posted on 12/02/2010 2:51:12 PM PST by curiosity
A health care bill to expand Medicare and increase taxes to pay for it passes both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate by wide margins and is signed by the President. Most people who are paying attention think that, for good or ill, this expansion of government will be with us forever. But just 17 months later, the law is repealed. Whereas it was passed in the House of Representatives by a vote of 328 to 72, the same House, with only a slight change of membership, votes 360 to 66 to repeal the bill. The new President, who, as Vice-President, had urged the President to sign the original bill, now signs the bill to repeal.
The bill described above was the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, which President Reagan signed into law in June 1988 after it got bipartisan support in the House and Senate. Both the House and Senate repealed it less than two years later.
Understanding how this happened is crucial for those of us who want to repeal Obamacare.
(Excerpt) Read more at healthreformreport.com ...
Good article. Also, it is a great history lesson from our not-so-distant past who think ObamaCare cannot be repealed.
Yes! We must make history repeat it'self at least one more time!!! If only old Claude Pepper were still alive in FL, he could once again beller: Keep yer filthy hands offa my MEDICARE!!! (While shaking his aged fist at the camera)
He, more than Reagan or anyone else got the repeal of this minor change (compared to the loss of Medicare Advantage under Obummercare) on the agenda and passed overnight!!! Let's make history repeat it'self, pronto!!!
Great piece.
I remember this.
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Very Important Article on How to Repeal this Lastest Abortion!
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Too bad the lame-duck House members—who were defeated because of their support of TerriSchiavoCare—couldn’t be talked into voting for repeal as revenge on Annunciata Patricia D’Allesandro Pelosi and Barry Soetoro. But they are die-hard Commies.
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