Health Care Columns You Should Read
Clark Judge via Hugh Hewitt: "The March of the Senate Democrats"
Also via Hugh Hewitt: Trial Lawyers Buy Democrats in Congress
Powerline has a series on where a "mystery hospital" is that's set to receive $100M. NYT is looking into it as well. Pray they continue.
WallStreetJournal editorial: "A Reckless Health Care Bill That No One Believes In"
Read the whole thing, it outlines the hidden costs, the tax payer deception, the lowering of quality of care, and the political intimidation used to get us here.
Even if you think something had to pass, something had to be done because so many are suffering, you have to know that the way this was done as shady, underhanded, and unAmerican. Something that affects so many should have had a thoughtful, serious debate that included the cooperation of both sides. Should have had compromises that benefited both ideals. THAT is the nature of the government that we live under. THIS is willful partisanship in the name of lobbyists, unions, and those on the far left that think they know better than everyone else.
The reprocussions of this I can not fathom. But I believe in the greatness that is this nation. I also know, that even great nations fall. When we start considering 26 year olds children who need to be wards of the state, we are on such a fall.
There's so much more out there to read. The Hill said that Nelson's claim the NE's Gov "okayd" the payoff is a lie. There's a lot out there. Even the kids at Huff Po don't like it - or don't LOVE it. Robert Kuttner. Drew Westen. Which you would think they would. They are getting what they want. Ridiculous legisation that legislates peoples rights away and raises taxes on an entire generation that hasn't even become a glimmer in anyone's eye.
Ugh. I'm saddened. What difference does it make if you melt the phones, the people think this is wrong, and everyone universally agrees this bill is trash (but some say "it's better than nothing") and the damn thing is still going to be on the President's desk in a week? HOW does that work?
If Senate Democrats do not know what this means, they should talk to the People’s Bank of China. ShanghaiDaily.com (http://tinyurl.com/ykmtv92 ) reports that on Friday the bank’s deputy governor “told an academic audience that… [t]he United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries. Double the holdings? It is definitely impossible."
Senate Democrats clearly do not understand or perhaps even care about nation’s finances. They are under tremendous, even unprecedented, pressure from the White House and special interests like the thuggish Service Employees International Union. The only numbers left to move them come from the polls.
Also via Hugh Hewitt: Trial Lawyers Buy Democrats in Congress
Has the investment paid off? Besides preventing the inclusion of medical malpractice reform, the Democratic majority in Congress has included multiple trial lawyer earmarks in the House version of Obamacare. Section 257 authorizes state attorneys general to sue companies that violate any federal health care provision and to delegate the work of such suits to class-action plaintiffs' firms. Another trial lawyer earmark in the bill pays states not to enact caps on attorneys' fees or lawsuit settlements.
Powerline has a series on where a "mystery hospital" is that's set to receive $100M. NYT is looking into it as well. Pray they continue.
WallStreetJournal editorial: "A Reckless Health Care Bill That No One Believes In"
Mr. Obama promised a new era of transparent good government, yet on Saturday morning Mr. Reid threw out the 2,100-page bill that the world's greatest deliberative body spent just 17 days debating and replaced it with a new "manager's amendment" that was stapled together in covert partisan negotiations. Democrats are barely even bothering to pretend to care what's in it, not that any Senator had the chance to digest it in the 38 hours before the first cloture vote at 1 a.m. this morning. After procedural motions that allow for no amendments, the final vote could come at 9 p.m. on December 24.
Even in World War I there was a Christmas truce.
Read the whole thing, it outlines the hidden costs, the tax payer deception, the lowering of quality of care, and the political intimidation used to get us here.
Even if you think something had to pass, something had to be done because so many are suffering, you have to know that the way this was done as shady, underhanded, and unAmerican. Something that affects so many should have had a thoughtful, serious debate that included the cooperation of both sides. Should have had compromises that benefited both ideals. THAT is the nature of the government that we live under. THIS is willful partisanship in the name of lobbyists, unions, and those on the far left that think they know better than everyone else.
The reprocussions of this I can not fathom. But I believe in the greatness that is this nation. I also know, that even great nations fall. When we start considering 26 year olds children who need to be wards of the state, we are on such a fall.
There's so much more out there to read. The Hill said that Nelson's claim the NE's Gov "okayd" the payoff is a lie. There's a lot out there. Even the kids at Huff Po don't like it - or don't LOVE it. Robert Kuttner. Drew Westen. Which you would think they would. They are getting what they want. Ridiculous legisation that legislates peoples rights away and raises taxes on an entire generation that hasn't even become a glimmer in anyone's eye.
Ugh. I'm saddened. What difference does it make if you melt the phones, the people think this is wrong, and everyone universally agrees this bill is trash (but some say "it's better than nothing") and the damn thing is still going to be on the President's desk in a week? HOW does that work?
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