Posted on 10/13/2009 12:12:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sweeping Health Bill Passes Senate Panel
The $829B plan would require most Americans to purchase insurance
Oct. 13: Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe announces in the Senate Finance Committee debate that she will vote for the heath care bill, telling her colleagues she has misgivings about the bill, but "when history calls, history calls."
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's vow to overhaul the U.S. health care system has cleared a key hurdle with a Senate committee passing a bill.
The Senate Finance Committee approved legislation Tuesday that meets most of the requirements set out by Obama for expanding coverage and cutting costs. The president has made health care reform his top domestic priority.
But Obama's plan still faces an uncertain future. The measure now goes before the full Senate. The House of Representatives is working on its own bill and the two measures would eventually have to be reconciled.
Obama had hoped for bipartisan support, but only one moderate Republican on the 23-member committee, Olympia Snowe, backed the plan.
Her decision gave the final vote a significance that transcended partisan divisions. For months, congressional Republicans have been virtually unanimous in denouncing the Democratic bills as an unwarranted expansion of government influence.
The Maine senator kept virtually all of Washington guessing about how she would vote until she announced it late in the Senate Finance Committee debate Tuesday. She told her colleagues she has misgivings about the bill, but "when history calls, history calls."
The president had earlier praised Snowe and the panel for "extraordinary diligence" on health reform.
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I am about to print up a bunch and leave in our church!!!
I hope you saw what Hannity showed last night what Robert Reisch, the Clinton midget, was saying, far more gross than the Orlando congressman was spewing!!!
the very liberal former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who is now an economics adviser for Barack Obama.
Robert Reich advocated in detail the cutting off of funds to elder patients and the lower funding of medical research, fully accepting that more people would die. Newsbusters quotes him:
“We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive...so we’re going to let you die.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/robert_reichs_cold_honesty.html
It is a hallmark of Marxist Revolution in its final phases that the old are exiled, killed off or starved by penury. Even those who were part of the Revolution.
The Youth are celebrated and lauded.
Why are the old killed off in mass? To break the chain of heritage, the passing down of wisdom between generations. So that the second generation knows nothing except the Marxist ideology that was taught to the Youth of first generation.
Why is youth celebrated in that phase? Because the young of the second generation will not feel they missed anything, and the young of the first generation will be full of themselves with vain pride — and able to put away their parents more easily.
Here we are today. They come to kill the Boomer generation. The Obama and Democrat Marxists are out to kill that generation for Revolutionary Ideals. The fascist elite are happy for it, because the cost of caring for that huge cohort of the Boomer Generation impairs the interest payments on the trillions in outstanding bonds.
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