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Obama Health Care Reform
Obama Health Care Reform
Below is what Barack Obama promised for our Health Care. Is this what he is offering us now? Will Obama or any member of Congress give up their present healt care plan for the one they are giving the American people? Read the two promises by Obama below and ask yourself, is he keeping his promise? The more we see his plan the more we see yet another promise not kept.On health care reform, the American people are too often offered two extremes--government-run health care with higher taxes or letting the insurance companies operate without rules. Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe both of these extremes are wrong, and that's why they've proposed a plan that strengthens employer coverage, makes insurance companies accountable and ensures patient choice of doctor and care without government interference.--Barack Obama, "Plan for a Healthy America: Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan" from barackobama.com If you already have insurance, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower premiums. If you don't have health insurance, you'll be able to get the same kind of health insurance Members of Congress get for themselves. --Barack Obama, "Closing Argument" speech, Canton, Ohio, October 26, 2008 The Heritage Foundation |
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The Stealth Plan to pass ObamaCareBy The Heritage Foundation - 9/22/09The plan is to proceed to a House passed non-health care bill to provide a shell of legislation to give Obamacare a ride to the House and then to Obama's desk. Here's the secret part: the Senate would pass healthcare reform as an anmendment to a completely unrelated bill so the Senate and House could act quickly and without further debate. Right now, the Senate Finance Committee is in the midst of marking up health care reform legislation. Due to Senate procedure, what they are actually marking up is a 200+ page conceptual framework of the actual legislation, not a real bill. That means that not only has no Senator even read the bill, but there is a high probability that the bill hasn't even been written yet. Here is the Secret Plan: 1. The Senate Finance Committee will finish work on the marking up of Senator Max Baucus' bill. Baucus has not unveiled final legislation and admendments are being added. Many Senators are upset that they don't have a final language for a bill, yet they sit in Committee, marking up a draft document that is not in the form of legislative language. 2. Next, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, will take the final product of the Senate Finance Committee and merge it with the product of the Senate Health, Educatin, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. This was Kennedy's bill, which passed the HELP Committee on 07.15.09, on a party line vote. Remember, most Senators will still not know what they voted for in the Finance Committee. 3. Senator Reid will then move to proceed to HR1586, a bill to impose a tax on bonuses, received by certain TARP recipients. This was the bill passed by the House in the wake of AIG bonus controversy and is currently sitting on the Senate Legislative Calendar. Reid will move to proceed, and he will need 60 votes to act on this bill. After the motion is approved, he will then offer a complete substitute bill including the combined Senate HELP and the Finance Committee products. This means that the entire healthcare reform effort will be included as an amendment to a TARP bill that has been sitting in the Senate for months. 4. For this strategy to work, the proponents would need to hold together for liberal caucus of 57 Democrats, 2 Independents (Lieberman and Sanders) and a replacement for Kennedy. Once the Senate passes a bill and sends it to the House, all the House would have to do is pass the bill without changes, and Obama will be presented with his healthcare reform. If this plan does not work, the Senate and House may consider using reconciliation to pass the legislation. Does this sound like a transparent, bipartisan and effective way to change the way millions of Americans get their healthcare? Only to the socialists. But there's one catch... The Left must get the bill through the Finance Committee on Tuesday. Patriots Need to Take Action Now and say NO to this healtcare bill vote on Tuesday! Call and Fax your Senators and the Committee Now! Your Senators: Sen. Warner 202-224-2023 Sen. Webb 202-224-4024 Finance Committee numbers: Sen. Baucus (Chair): 202-224-2651 Finance Committee: 202-224-4515 Finance Committee Website of the Proposed Bill Or you can view the same information from the files below that are from the Finance Committe Website:  Americas Healthy Future Act Amended This is the first bill with the amendments dated 10/02/09 Americas Healthy Future Act Tech Corrections Tech Corrections dated 10/05/09 Americas Healthy Future Act Published Version This is the Published Version of the bill dated 10/07/09 |
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Conservatives for Patients' Rights for debate over health care reform. |
