weeklystandard.com - 15 days ago
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing ...
Paranormal Healthcare Activity - Give Us 72 Hours - Support HR 554
dailybail.com 18 days ago — Youtube Video: Health Care Reform Comedy, With Mary Katharine Ham -- Give Us 72 Hours Support HR 554 Is it too much to ask for transparency in a bill that is poised to takeover a SIXTH of our economy? What we want (deserve) is 72 hours to read the legislative bamboozle before a vote. For the ...
Sen. Reid on Health Insurance Profits
mjperry.blogspot.com 20 days ago — As for insurance companies , “There isn’t anything we could do to satisfy them in this health care bill. Nothing,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said. “They are so anti-competitive. Why? Because they make more money than any other ...
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Coyote Blog
House passes health care bill . I wonder if anybody really knows what is in this thing . I am not much of a political expert, but I don’t see how, if the vote was so close in the House, that they are ever going to get this pig through the Senate. Perhaps go the conference route so they ...
Key Vote Alert - Health Care Bill (HR 3962) —
Club for Growth
KEY VOTE ALERT
"NO" ON AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR AMERICA ACT (HR 3962)
The Club for Growth urges all members of the U.S. House to vote "NO" on the so-called Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962). The bill is expected to be considered as early as this Saturday. This vote ...
Inside Baseball on the Health Care Vote —
Across the Curve
I think that the best political reporting on the internet is at Politico.Com. I am a junkie for this stuff and they constantly deliver winning material. Here is a post from early this morning on the horsetrading as the House prepares to vote on the Byzantine bill.
Disguised Health Care Costs: The $1.5 Trillion Fraud —
Cato @ Liberty
If House Democrats hold a vote on their health-care overhaul this weekend, they might as well vote to abolish the Congressional Budget Office too.
It would be no more audacious (and much more honest) than the way they have gamed the CBO’s rules to hide $1.5 trillion of the cost of their ...
Horse Trading —
Across the Curve
It appears that the House of Representatives version of health care reform will come to a vote pretty soon. Here is an interesting story from Politico on some of the back room dealings which have taken place as this particular Rube Goldberg machine is cobbled together.
Pelosi plan requires abortion payments —
Sense of Events
Under the 2,000-plus page bill the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi plans to cram down the Congress' throat to vote on Saturday is a provision that requires a monthly premium payment into the government plan specifically to pay for abortion services . The House's Republican leader, Rep. John ...
Saw This Coming —
Coyote Blog
Yours Truly, on July 16, 2009:
It is totally clear to me that Obama and Pelosi will spend any amount of money to pass their key legislative initiatives. In the case of Waxman-Markey, the marginal price per vote turned out to be about $3.5 billion . But they didn’t even blink at paying ...
Thursday Watch —
Between the Hedges
Late-Night Headlines Bloomberg: - Undeterred by Republican election triumphs in Virginia and New Jersey, Democratic leaders put the U.S. House on a path to vote as early as Saturday on the most sweeping overhaul of health-care policy in four decades. The election of Republican governors in New ...
Stocks and Voters Show GOP the Way —
Kudlow's Money Politic$
Stocks loved last night’s election returns. President Obama and Nancy Pelosi got their ears pounded back over big spending, taxes, the health-care takeover, cap-and-trade, and well, the fact that government is getting too darned big under this crowd in Washington. The health-care insurance ...
Shutting off the miracle-drug spigot —
Newsback
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week when she called her latest health-care-reform proposal a "his toric moment": After decades of life-saving and cost-cutting scientific innovations from drug and medical-device companies, the government is about to step in and stifle the ...
Will Health Care Reform Lead to Salaried Doctors? —
naked capitalism
As readers probably know, the health care reform bill passed the House tonight , by a thin margin and with the Democrats offering a large concession by limiting reimbursements on abortions.
Thomas Frank has a good piece in the New York Times tonight , in which he argues that health care ...
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