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Message From A Senate Source To Democrats In The House: “We Will Kill Your ‘Fix’”
Right Wing News ^ | 3/4/10 | John Hawkins

Posted on 03/06/2010 12:31:46 AM PST by Daisyjane69

First off, here's the two-step Democrats want to execute on health care:

1) The House passes the bill that has already been approved by the Senate. At that point, Obama can sign the bill and it's the law. However, ideally they will also pass a 2nd bill via reconciliation.

2) The House and Senate pass another bill via reconciliation that's designed to make changes to the Senate bill. Reconciliation can only be used for budget related issues, so issues like abortion can't be dealt with that way.

Last night, I talked with some of my sources in the Senate about how the Democrats' strategy is looking. Here's what one of them told me:

(Excerpt) Read more at rightwingnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcare; reconciliation
What a mess.
1 posted on 03/06/2010 12:31:47 AM PST by Daisyjane69
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To: Daisyjane69

Obama’s health insurance plan for America:

Step 1 - Are you a Republican? If yes, go to step 4
Step 2 - Are you a Democrat? If yes, go to step 5
Step 3 - Start over at step 1
Step 4 - COVERAGE DENIED
Step 5 - COVERAGE APPROVED


2 posted on 03/06/2010 12:33:33 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Daisyjane69

Democrats falling to earth without a parachute. If they really want to pass it I advise they go ahead and tell the public the whole damn plan.


3 posted on 03/06/2010 12:35:59 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: advance_copy

Obama’s health insurance plan for America:

Step 1 - Are you a Republican? If yes, go to step 4
Step 2 - Are you a Democrat? If yes, go to step 5
Step 3 - Start over at step 1
Step 4 - COVERAGE DENIED
Step 5 - COVERAGE APPROVED


That’s about it.

Sone ACORN type bureaucrat sees that someone attends Tea Parties, FReeps, is a member of the NRA, etc. and woooosh-they’re screwed.


4 posted on 03/06/2010 12:37:58 AM PST by unkus
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To: Daisyjane69

Is there anything the public can do to stop them? There must be something. After all it is our money they are using.


5 posted on 03/06/2010 1:32:50 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: freekitty

Yes, its quite simple actually. The house is the republic’s “relief valve” with 2-year terms. That’s the way it is: on purpose. Everybody lets their rep know they MUST Kill the Bill. Then, they don’t. Then they lose their jobs. Forever... and ever.


6 posted on 03/06/2010 2:58:18 AM PST by C210N (A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: Daisyjane69; All


7 posted on 03/06/2010 3:44:25 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: freekitty

If you have a phone, dial it. If you have email, use it, and pray like you’ve never prayed before.

If Pelosi had the votes, we’d have health care right now. SHE DOES NOT HAVE THE VOTES!

Make your voice heard NOW. I am afraid that once passed, this monster will grow regardless of our best intentions. If we can’t even kill the dept of mis-education I think we will have a much harder time trying to untie this knot.


8 posted on 03/06/2010 5:14:28 AM PST by LurkLongley (Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam-For the Greater Glory of God)
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To: Daisyjane69

It ain’t dead until congress is recessed and we flip at least 1 in Nov, or we will be fighting this battle for 3 more years!

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

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.

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.

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

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2464538/posts

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/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

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.

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.

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.
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Health Reform 3.0 - Lipstick On A Pig
Friday, March 05, 2010 3:05:55 PM · 5 of 5
GailA to raptor22

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

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.

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.

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

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2464538/posts

MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/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

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.

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.

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.


9 posted on 03/06/2010 7:16:15 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: Daisyjane69

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10 posted on 03/06/2010 7:16:58 AM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: Daisyjane69
This is a good article that sums up the reconciliation bill issue fairly well. But it doesn't address the timing of the development of the reconciliation bill relative to the House vote for the Senate version of ObamaCare. I think that is critical since we are really dealing here with the perceptions of the process by a small group of Congressmen led by Bart Stupak. These Pro-Lifers are probably all that stands between us and ObamaCare. So what they think and what they do is very, very important.

I'm hoping that the Stupak group sticks to their guns and demands the inclusion of anti-abortion funding clause in the reconciliation bill before they will vote YES on the Senate's ObamaCare. I'm hoping that a simple promise by Reid to do so will not sway them.

But of course it is, IMHO, IMPOSSIBLE for the Senate to include such a clause in the reconciliation bill. The Senate might not go for it and it's probably not possible under the reconciliation rules. And even if they could they couldn't actually pass it before the House has to act on the Senate Bill. So Stupak and Company will eventually figure this out. They will come to realize that the Senate can't come through in a way that would give them anything like certainty and, more likely, they will figure out that what they are demanding is impossible for the Senate to provide.

And what will they do then? That's $1Trillion question.

So the action is in the House. But there isn't going to be any action until the House sees what the Senate plans to do. So I'm watching the Senate. And I'll tell you I'm not seeing much. Whatever they are doing it is being done in the dark of the night with cigar smoke and the smell of whiskey filling the air. And Harry Reid trying to stay awake.

11 posted on 03/06/2010 1:58:36 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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