Health Care

[$parechange]

President Obama finally made it official yesterday: he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules - and the American people - and use a parliamentary trick called "reconciliation" to pass his health care takeover legislation. Fortunately, there's a catch: before the Senate can use reconciliation to force through Obama's tweaks, the House would have to pass the Senate health care bill. And we must stop them.
In his remarks the president demanded that Congress cave in and vote "in the next few weeks."
The key vote will now occur in the House of Representatives - perhaps within 10 to 12 days - and we have to win it. That's because it's impossible for the Senate to make changes via reconciliation until after the Senate bill has passed the House. Of course, once the Senate bill passes the House, President Obama will sign it and it will become the law of the land - whether or not the reconciliation trick makes some changes around the edges.
Speaker Pelosi will use every trick in the book to try and find the 216 votes she will need to ram through the health care bill passed "pre-Scott Brown" with 60 votes in the Senate back in December. This will be the key vote.
You remember the Senate bill... 2,700 pages of big government waste, fraud and abuse... corrupt back-room deals including the "Cornhusker Kickoff" to buy Ben Nelson's vote, the $300 million "Louisiana Purchase" to buy Senator Landrieu's vote... $1 trillion in new spending that will run up the deficit... tens of thousands of new government bureaucrats and dozens of new federal agencies... government boards to decide what medical treatments will be allowed and for which citizens based on the government's view of "quality of life"... a vast new entitlement when current entitlements like Medicare and Social Security are already headed for bankruptcy. I could go on but you get the picture.
Democrats in the House will try to justify their votes for the disastrous Senate bill based on vague promises that it will be "fixed" later. But no changes could fix this disastrous bill. If the Senate bill passes the House, a Washington takeover of health care will be a certainty.
That means in just the next few days, we've got to make sure our individual members of the House of Representatives feel the maximum heat from grassroots activists like you and me.
You may think, "My member is a firm NO vote, so it's a waste of time" or the opposite, "My member of Congress is a YES vote so why call or email?" Here's why I'm asking you to call and email them anyway: we need to show the national outrage over this latest attempt to ram this through, and that means burying Congress, all of Congress, with personal calls and emails from Americans.
I'm asking you to take 3 steps.
1. Call and email your member of Congress in the next 24 hours. CLICK HERE to email your member, and CLICK HERE to call your member; - based on your zip code we can provide the right information for your representative. Tell them to vote NO on the corrupt, big government Senate health care takeover bill and tell them Americans do not want this parliamentary trick called "reconciliation."
2. Forward this email to your friends, family, co-workers, and fellow activists across the nation asking them to do the same thing. They may not know how much the House vote matters. Your friends and family need to hear from someone they know and trust that now is a crucial time on health care and protecting our freedoms.
3. Commit to being a part of the "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" event on March 16. Here's how it will work. On March 16 at 12 noon your time, we're asking you to drive to your nearest congressional district office CLICK HERE FOR THE OFFICE NEAREST YOU and drive around the office for at least 15 minutes occasionally honking your horn. Our goal is to have Americans across the nation telling the politicians to keep their hands off our health care through this "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" effort.
CLICK HERE to let us know you'll join the effort and please recruit your friends. To show people why you’re honking, when you register we’ll send you a "Honk Against the Health Care Takeover" bumper sticker. You’ll also be able to download and print a sign for your car window on our website.
Yesterday, the president actually said the nation is "waiting for [Washington] to act" on the health care issue. This is arrogance and political posturing at its worst. Like us, the president knows the truth. Every reputable public opinion poll for months has clear majorities of the American people saying "NO" to the health care "reform" coming out of Washington, D.C.
Now is the time to finish the job of protecting this most personal freedom by stopping the Democrats' Washington takeover of our health care in the U.S. House of Representatives.

[Jaybird]

Democrats still need to see a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office — and want to ensure it stays around $950 billion over 10 years.

The costs of the bill would be covered through a combination of Medicare cuts and tax increases. Among the new levies, the Medicare payroll tax would be applied to the investment earnings of upper-income earners, including proceeds from capital gains. Until now, the tax has solely been levied on wages.

I guess any money you save and invest will have medicare deducted from it as well. Not aware of this one, I wonder if all the fat cats in Washington know it is in the bill? They probably have a provision where it does not apply to them. We have waited a long time and paid a lot into Medicare, to have it raped, plundered and paid to non deserving occupants of this great country. When the blood and sweat has been sucked out of everybody, the crooks and morons in DC won't know where to turn.

[$parechange]

This is the most ridicules statement I have ever heard!!! This women really pi$$es me off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To

[Nervous Wreck]

"Government"....WHAT A WORD!

[$parechange]

FLEMING HEALTH CARE REFORM UPDATE
Guess how many taxes are in this bill??!!
March 14, 2010
As a citizen concerned about our nation’s health care system, I thought you’d like to know that the health care bill being rammed through the House contains 10 years worth of tax increases to pay for only 6 years worth of benefits. These taxes total $500 billion dollars over 10 years. Many of these taxes will affect Americans earning less than $200,000 a year, despite the President’s promise to avoid such taxes.
Here are just a few of the taxes contained in the bill:
• $750 penalty per worker charged to employers who fail to provide government-sanctioned health insurance
• Tax on brand name drugs—totaling $2.3 billion
• Increased penalty for early withdrawal from your HSA (from 10% to 20%)
• Tax on medical devices—totaling $19.2 billion
• 10% tax on indoor tanning services
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: Some of these taxes may affect you directly. Others, like the employer mandate, will cost our economy desperately needed jobs. Others will have ripple effects through the system that will raise prices for everyone.
THE DOCTOR'S DIAGNOSIS: America needs common sense health reform, not job-killing taxes. Future Congresses will be under pressure to raise taxes even further to pay for future years of an expanded government-administered health care system.
As this process unfolds, I will continue to work to represent you, bring common-sense to this debate, expose abuses of power and do all I can to prevent bad policy from becoming law.
Sincerely,

JOHN FLEMING, M.D.
Member of Congress

[E_]

[katie]

ahhhh, you kill us E! I bet you could do a better job!!!

E. HILLMAN FOR PRESIDENT!!!!

[Jaybird]

Democrats still need to see a final cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office — and want to ensure it stays around $950 billion over 10 years.

The costs of the bill would be covered through a combination of Medicare cuts and tax increases. Among the new levies, the Medicare payroll tax would be applied to the investment earnings of upper-income earners, including proceeds from capital gains. Until now, the tax has solely been levied on wages.

I guess any money you save and invest will have medicare deducted from it as well. Not aware of this one, I wonder if all the fat cats in Washington know it is in the bill? They probably have a provision where it does not apply to them. We have waited a long time and paid a lot into Medicare, to have it raped, plundered and paid to non deserving occupants of this great country. When the blood and sweat has been sucked out of everybody, the crooks and morons in DC won't know where to turn.

I also found out that the Medicare Advantage plan won't be supported anymore, so I probably will have to pay 10 times what I pay for it now. I guess this is where they are going to get money towards obamacare. I was at the doctor's office today and the nurse said not to mention anything about obama as he will go nuts and they will have to listen to his ranting all day. Then I went to the VA clinic and their opinion, well never mind.

Is there anyone for it as it stands. Perhaps I am wrong and too intellectually compromised.

[FasterThanYou]

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