One report said the Governor of Nebraska has spoken out and urged Nelson to vote against Obamacare.
If the Gov. is saying go against this bill, the Gov’s office must be getting slammed with Nebraskans calling saying they do not want this bill.
Looks like Nelson is getting enough pressure he’s actually holding his ground.
Now it’s time to start on the other few iffy’s, Nelson of Fla, Collins, Snowe (who has been good so far but unreliable).
We can’t let our guard down until this and any other bill is dead and buried.
NE is the “heart” of the heartland of America.
Having a guv weigh in publicly points out the momentum that the resistance against the bill is gaining.
Support is even waning here in CA, although those in favor still outnumber the opposition. The dimwits were already on the zerocare bandwagon, but now that they’re figuring out how much it’s going to cost and how many jobs this disintegrating state will further shed as a result of zerocare, they’re catching on that zerocare really does mean “zero care.”
The elderly living in sunny SoCal must be scared half to death of the Medicare cuts and that they won’t outlive the tax burden imposed on them for four years before there’s any “care” to be had.
Beyond that, the illegals and those living around the poverty level won’t have their plight improved because they’ll be on Medicaid, which is the last stop in medical care before none at all and the graveyard, so there’s really nothing in it for the poor, either.
I really think we’re approaching the point where only the hard-core commies and the truly clueless who only hear the part that someone else will pay for them support it. They’ve alienated the young by forcing them to buy coverage and enforcing it through the IRS and jail sentences, they’ve alienated the elderly, they’ve alienated small business and even big business to some extent, and even the unions for awhile by placing a tax on “Cadillac” plans. I think that was removed, but now the unions and their membership have been awakened to the possibility that it can be put back in later and......gulp......they might actually have to PAY FULL PRICE/PAY THEIR OWN WAY for what they’re getting. They now know they are not bullet-proof, so even they aren’t as supportive as they used to be, or so I hear. They’re figuring out that this is a government and union boss/leadership power-grab (all medical care will be provided by union workers, right down to the guy painting lines in the medical facility parking lots or else the facility will not get its stipend), not a big boon to the membership itself and that they are vulnerable to higher costs and taxes. Union workers hadn’t realized that it costs more money to run a bigger plantation and that there really is a limit to corporate resources and OPM (Other People’s Money). The union membership, at least the individuals with two brain cells to rub together, are learning that they’re NOT special and they’re as much a part of the riff-raff as the rest of us.
Of course, strictly private facilities for the rich and the political class will remain available to them on a hush-hush, “hiding in plain sight” basis
If this monstrosity passes, a person’s form and level of medical care will be a measure of his position in society. Americans will become balkanized through this stratification.