Posted on 03/03/2010 11:14:38 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama urged Congress Wednesday to vote "up or down" on sweeping health care legislation in the next few weeks, endorsing a plan that denies Senate Republicans the right to kill the bill by stalling with a filibuster.
"I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said, rejecting Republican calls to begin anew on an effort to remake the health care system.
The president made his appeal as Democratic leaders in Congress surveyed their rank and file for the votes needed to pass legislation by majority vote—invoking rules that deny Senate Republicans the right to block it through endless stalling debate. Obama specifically endorsed that approach
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well that makes sense.
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462963/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
Snip
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Once a thug, always a thug.
The vote that manners is in the House.
If the anti-abortion funding group are truely honest, led by Stupeck, then the Bill won't pass
Probably his long range goal, kill the left hunt down the terrorist right, and install an Islamic center.
OK, so waiting another year to get it right makes no sense, Barry is going to shove it through on just Democrat votes.
So, why wait "a few weeks" to do that? Could it be they don't have the votes???
Tort reform at last.
Thats gonna happen anyway. Why do you think they keep pushing? They know they will be history no matter what they do.
That’s another [intentional] blind spot that leftists have -
they won’t accept that their solutions start from the morally inferior position of being FORCED, literally with the threat of deadly consequences, on people,
whereas private solutions offer choice to accept or decline.
Start printing the Medicare cut articles and passing them out to all the senior citizens you know...nothing like made grannies. Standing out front of a SS office with signs about the cuts could be an option, just stay on the sidewalk.
Exactly!
And they won't have them in a few weeks either.
McConnell just nailed it on the wall, its a national referenda AHEAD of the democrats.
Well, soon they will rule that if you own a firearm you cannot get coverage even if you pay for it, which you will be.
Aaaaah yes!
Here’s obama saying essentially “no reconciliation.”
I don't get the carrot and stick act here by Harkin in the Senate, the Senate will not through reconciliaiton add back this provision, it was never in the cards. We will see if Stupak is a CINO or not. I mean if you can't stand up for life, innocent life your not worth a crap and I would question your salvation cause you never really beleived after all. Hey Bart the bible says that works is a sign of salvation, well time to show you love Jesus more than you love yourself, epitome of Christianity.
Does anyone think that there are the votes in the House to pass the Senate bill? I think Pelosi is lying when she says she has the votes.
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