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    Morning Bell: The Pelosi Blueprint for Government Run Health Care

    October 30, 2009 at 9:50 am

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    The new House health care bill (H.R. 3962) unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) yesterday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. As written, the bill purports to cost only $1.05 trillion over the first ten years and is paid for by over $700 billion in tax increases … More

    The New House Health Bill: Latest Version of the Public Plan

    October 29, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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    The new House bill ( H.R. 3962) contains a slightly revised version of the “public option”, a new government run health plan designed to compete against private health plans. Pool of Eligible Enrollees. Under the original House tri-committee legislation ( H.R. 3200), in year one (2013), individuals and employers with … More

    Morning Bell: Is Government Run Health Care Inevitable?

    October 28, 2009 at 9:30 am

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    Americans who like making their own health care choices received welcome news yesterday when Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said he would be willing to block final passage of Obamacare if the government run health insurance program Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced Monday survives the amendment process during the Senate … More

    Strong Public Plan Means Heavy Cuts to Hospitals

    October 26, 2009 at 5:52 pm

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    Behind closed doors, the House and Senate leaders are trying to cobble together very different and complex provisions of their respective bills. A key issue is the impact of the public plan, a government run health plan intended to compete against private health plans. In the House version of the … More

    Medicare’s Low Administrative Costs Cost You $60 Billion a Year

    October 26, 2009 at 12:40 pm

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    Once left for dead,  it now appears likely that the health legislation Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will introduce sometime this week will include a government run health insurance program. One of the biggest reasons leftists support a government run plan is because they believe government run programs, like Medicare, … More

    Changing Its Name Won’t Fix Obamacare

    October 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm

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    The latest ploy to promote Obamacare is to rename it after something popular. Giving it the title of “Medicare Part E” is the newest tactic. The package might look different, but inside is the same old stuff: Government-run health care that is so expensive that it threatens our economy today … More

    Secret Obamacare Negotiations Enter Day 7 – The Fix is in

    October 20, 2009 at 11:34 am

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    As the secret Obamacare negotiations enter Day 7, word has leaked from the meeting that the White House and Senate leaders have ordered Congress to pass a $247 billion dollar payoff to doctors groups for their support of comprehensive health care reform. The Fix is in – Doc Fix that … More

    Morning Bell: The Senate Begins Voting on Obamacare This Week

    October 20, 2009 at 10:25 am

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    After thousands of Americans attended hundreds of townhalls this summer, after the President of the United States delivered a rare speech to a Joint Session of Congress, after endless coverage of legislative markups in the relevant congressional committees, what if the Senate began actual floor votes on the health care … More

    Morning Bell: Exposing the Obamacare Shell Game

    October 19, 2009 at 9:32 am

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    In his primetime health care address before a Joint Session of Congress, President Barack Obama promised the American people: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. Period.” But it is hard work adding $1 trillion in government … More

    The Senate’s Health Care Shell Game

    October 15, 2009 at 2:32 pm

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    According to the Associated Press, at the direction of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senate Democrats are plotting to pass a bill, by as early as next week, that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade. This will no doubt add to the deficit. … More

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