By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
What would a government-led healthcare system that includes a public option look like? Thanks to a group of Democrats in the U.S. House, who introduced a version of their healthcare plan Tuesday, we know. It looks like a 14-year-old boy's bedroom or, to put it another way, it's a mess.
At more than 1,000 pages, the Democrats' plan is quite long, too long to believe that most members will read before voting on it. More likely they will depend on the analysis of what the bill does provided by staff and by stakeholders in the support of the effort to push the U.S. healthcare system—which represents more than 17 percent of GDP—down the slippery slope toward nationalization. It would come at an estimated cost of at least $1 trillion dollars—an amount roughly equal to the current budget deficit, which for the first time has passed that crucial benchmark.
And they are "hell bent for Texas" to get it done.
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Can't anybody stop this idiot!
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ReplyDeleteBy ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: July 15, 2009
BOSTON — A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law is forcing the hospital to cover too much of the expense of caring for the poor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16hospital.html?_r=1
Centrist Dem Leader: Has Committee Votes To Block Health Bill
By Martin Vaughan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., a leader of fiscally conservative House Democrats, said Wednesday a House plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system is losing support and will be stuck in committee without changes.
"Last time I checked, it takes seven Democrats to stop a bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee," Ross told reporters after a House vote. "We had seven against it last Friday; we have 10 today."
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907151403dowjonesdjonline000758&title=centrist-dem-leaderhas-committee-votes-to-block-health-bill
Where's Frankie the K, our fair-haired Congressman, on this outrageous legislation.
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ReplyDeleteThey are also doing it with GM.
IMO this is another example of rush rush rush to screw over the American Citizen before they find out Obama is not, by the Constituttion, Legitimately our Preident. The Liberals / Democrats know America, our values and Constitution, will be destroyed before any of this can be corrected.
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